Quotes About Spending

From the moment he'd been elected Speaker in January, John Boehner had insisted that House Republicans had every intention of following through on their campaign pledge to end what he called my "job-crushing spending binge of the last two years.

Although my government has been talking quite a bit about protecting and helping middle America, what I have seen has been to the contrary. I see a government that has been catering to lobbyists and special interest groups. I see billions of dollars that are being spent on bailouts for financial institutions…

Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

who goes to the beauty shop and spends a small fortune.

Americans spent about $27 billion on nontraditional remedies, most of them unproven.

In a typical election period that includes campaigns for the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives, about one billion dollars is spent per year, which sounds like a lot of money, unless you care to measure it against something seemingly less important than Democratic elections.It is the same amount, for instance, that Americans spend every year on chewing gum.

Lo que realmente importa para un candidato político no es cuánto gasta, sino quién es.

shows that in 1929 Americans spent more than 60 percent of their disposable income on necessities; by 2016 that had fallen to a third.

they say that the government spends too much on "welfare" but too little on "assistance to the poor," and that it should "use military force" but not "go to war.

And tellingly, the number of libertarian paradises in the world—developed countries without substantial social spending—is zero.

The next step in the historic trend toward greater social spending may be a universal basic income (or its close relative, a negative income tax). The idea has been bruited for decades, and its day may be coming.

Indeed, social spending in the United States is even higher than it appears, because many Americans are forced to pay for health, retirement, and disability benefits through their employers rather than the government. When this privately administered social spending is added to the public portion, the United States vaults from twenty-fourth into second place among the thirty-five OECD countries, just behind France.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it's the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

Allá en casa la pobreza era tanta que desde muy temprano uno aprendía eso de no gastar en cualquier cosa. Todo costaba dinero. Todo era caro.

The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs. The rich don't need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security.

If you had to give a child just one piece of advice upon entering a shopping mall, a good suggestion might be "Remember that everything—and by that I mean everything—is a trick to take your money.

Players don't mind getting money for free, but when they have to spend it, they want to know why. Explain your drains.