Jodi Allen Quotes
There is no escape from the cost of public needs.
Jodi Allen, Economic Journalist, ABC Money Politics, April 15, 1990
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He was arguing for investments in third world countries.
Roosevelt was very candid with the American people that there would be high cost to war and sacrifice would be needed. See {584569} for other similar candor. This quotation was often used by critics of George W. Bush who initiated the Iraq War and then cut taxes for the rich, but then financed the war through the budgetary emergency appropriations bypassing the budget rules that the revenue must be specified to pay for it. His administration even claimed at an early stage in the war that the oil revenue from Iraq oil would defray the costs.
In most communities, social services are actually performed by local organizations and companies working under grants and contracts awarded by Federal, State or local government agencies. But often these grant recipients or contractors go off and do what they want to do rather than what is actually needed.
The Dutch King’s brother, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte, insisted on Dutch contributions to his war effort in the way of Dutch troops, ships and provisions. Yet there was not enough possible revenue to pay for such a war effort. Gogel was able to introduce efficiencies in many areas but still more taxes were needed. War expenditures took all the resources of the state and progress stopped and the kingdom was almost destroyed by the economic crisis.
