Social Spending Quotes

The more we spend on social spending the more we create an appetite for more social spending.

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Venezuela’s state oil company routinely spends more on social programs then it does on exploration and production.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

The beneficiaries of social spending in the developing countries are not the poor. First, more public spending of any sort means more public employment. Bureaucracies in developing countries do not give many jobs to the landless rural poor, to small street traders, to unskilled manual workers, or to the urban unemployed. They recruit from the middle classes, who are, therefore, the first to benefit from public spending.

In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.

When it comes to kid's issues, voters are willing to put their money where their mouth is.

The Republicans can't say no to military spending, and the Democrats can't say no to social spending.

Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with the optimal mix depending on country-specific circumstances.

We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.

Too many states spend more money on prisons than on higher education.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

A lot of the money spent in the name of relief has nothing to do with relief.

Latin American countries have lavished money on its armies when they should have been lavishing it on their children.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive.

If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

Social spending is going up at a tremendous rate. The irony is that it went up even faster during the “prudent” years of Republican administration more so than it did under the “spendthrift” Democratic administrations….

A Conservative on the House Education and Labor Committee is one who spends conservatively. A Liberal on the House Education and Labor Committee is one who spends liberally. A Conservative on the House Armed Services Committee is one who spends liberally. A Liberal on the House Armed Services Committee is one who spends conservatively.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.