“There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.” YearsStillsBigsKidsWasteProgramDelayPublic Sector Author:Antonis Samaras
“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.” ThinkingShouldEvilOpportunityStrongForgetWorryAmountWasteNegativeProgramRootsImpactCriticalSpeedEnormousEfficiencyProgrammersMaintenancePrematureOptimizationDebugging Author:Donald Knuth
“Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other hardworking system, it needs periodic rest and support to continue functioning optimally. This program will teach you how to rest and restore your body's natural detoxification abilities.” NeedsBodyNaturalAbilityTeachSupportProductsWasteProgramEnvironmentalYour BodyEliminatingHardworkingMetabolismToxins Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.
“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable of running a mammoth, unwieldy government program providing each one of us with the precise health insurance we need, at a good price, with no waste or fraud. Trust them, they worked it all out on paper their junior year.” KnowsNeedsYearsIdeasGovernmentRunningWastePaperCapableProgramShakesFraudGraduatesProvidingPreciseJuniorsHarvardGovernment ProgramsJunior Year Author:Ann Coulter
“There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.” GovernmentRunningWasteProgramSavedFraudMedicareMisuseMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Chuck Grassley
“Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.” StillsUseEnvironmentAmountWasteProgramEnvironmentalDecadesChainsPlusQuantityPollutionRecallsExceedDumpFood Chain Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
“Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.” HelpingGivenChanceQualityCompanyIssuesCommunicationShapesWasteProgramSafetyEnvironmentalSatisfactionCustomersWideImprovementEmployeeSuggestionsReductionParticipatingCustomer Satisfaction Author:Stephen Covey
“You don't need to waste money on a fancy program or app to do a basic budget. I've been using a simple Excel spreadsheet since 2005 to track my monthly budget.” NeedsSimpleWasteProgramTrackBudgetsFancyApps Author:Michelle Singletary
“The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.” MayImportantAmericaScienceNationsIssuesEnvironmentExampleHealthIndustryConflictProveWasteProgramSafetyThreatCleanEnvironmentalProfitAdministrationWelfareAccomplishmentReachingChemicalsToxicSiteLegislationUrgentReductionHealth And SafetyPublic WelfareToxic Waste Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.” YearsGovernmentResultsWasteProgramAbuseDollarsCreditBillionsCardsAgencyFederal GovernmentBureaucracyEntitlementCredit CardMisuseGovernment BureaucracyMismanagementEntitlement ProgramsGovernment AgenciesGovernment Waste Author:Chris Chocola
“You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.” KnowsHardFactsGovernmentPainColdWasteProgramSizeSunsetFraudEfficientWorkplaceShrinksWorkforceWorkplace Safety Author:Meg Whitman
“By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.” PeopleNeedsWasteFindingsProgramAbuseFundEntitlementEliminatingFinding The OneEntitlement Programs Author:Jim Ryun