“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.” NeedsSecurityWeaponsSpendingNational SecuritySpending Money Author:Lawrence Korb
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.” NationsSocialSecurityHigherTaxesProgramSpendingDefenseCombinationBudgetsSocial SecurityDeficitEntitlementMedicareModificationEntitlement ProgramsBudget Deficit Author:Ben Bernanke
“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.” WantTwoReasonProblemFightingSocialSecurityBlameSpendingSocial SecurityCapsSurplus Author:Robert Reischauer
“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.” IfsWayProblemGovernmentRunningSocialDealsSupportSecurityLimitsDebtSpendingPilotsFederal GovernmentSocial SecurityMedicareMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Allen West
“Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.” GovernmentSocialGenerationsSecurityPromiseProgramSpendingSocial SecurityGovernment Spending Author:Hank Johnson
“After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.” SecuritySpendingDefenseSeptemberHomelandSeptember 11Homeland SecurityUnpatrioticDefense Spending Author:Jeff Flake
“I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.” ThinkingDoneProblemGovernmentJobsSocialGenerationsSecurityPressesVery GoodSpendingDefenseSeatsDepartmentSocial SecurityGood JobToiletsMedicareOur GenerationGovernment SpendingMedicaidToilet SeatMedicare And Medicaid Author:Dave Barry
“Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.” PeopleWantCareSocialSecurityPoliticianSpendingDisasterLustHealth CareRecipesSocial SecurityMedicareBureaucratsLiabilityFacelessSpending Other People's Money Author:Ed Crane
“You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.” LastsSocialEnvironmentSecurityRepublicanElectionBlameSpendingAdministrationSocial SecurityDeficitSurplus Author:William J. Clinton
“There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.” WayYearsStatesReasonSocialInterestUnitedUnited StatesSecurityVoteDebtSpendingDrivenReason WhySenateNational SecuritySocial SecurityMedicareMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Marco Rubio
“I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldDifferentEnergyGivenNumbersHalfSecurityClimateClimate ChangeSpendingBillionsImperatives Author:Bill Gates