Sentences with phrase «big government programs»

they aim to justify big government programs and to leech onto them once created.

I oppose Common Core and other big government programs that strip local schools of their identity.»

Jesus advocated for the poor, but he never said that big government programs were the way to get it done.

Levin, who retired from his job as a real estate attorney at age 49, is not the sort to pine for big government programs.

«Any time you roll out a big government program like this, confusion is inevitable,» said Lois Greisman, an associate director in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.

How much you want to bet her mother went on medicaid to pay her bills — you know that BIG GOVERNMENT program that rich people STEAL from by giving away assets to their children.

It's that they all bought into a big government program.

Not exact matches

The fee could be based on a percentage of their gross farm receipts (the total of receipts from all agricultural products sold, government program payments and contract work done on other farms), with bigger farms shouldering more of the cost.

However, the bigger concern is that this is one more threat to your retirement nest egg, on top of low interest rates, a low - growth economic outlook, uncertain stock markets and potential government cuts to other programs, such as health care and nursing - home subsidies.

While President Trump has called Lockheed's F - 35 fighter - jet program too expensive, the Commander - in - Chief remains an invaluable — if fickle — ally for the company, which counts the U.S. government as its biggest customer.

A co-funding program with angel investors and a commercialisation fund for Western Australia's universities are the «big ticket» items in the state government's $ 20 million innovation strategy, released last night.

«If the government wheeled out a significant medium - term infrastructure program, I don't think I'd have a big problem with it — they can borrow very cheaply and there's a pretty good case to be made that there's lots of demand for infrastructure.»

And they book in big savings from program cuts that are still working their way through the federal government.

A review of Barnett government programs and projects has identified a raft of shortcomings in governance, project management and financial management, and listed Royalties for Regions as the single biggest problem.

Under Mulally's «One Ford» strategy, the company was the only one of the big three U.S. automakers to sidestep bankruptcy and not take any money from the government's massive TARP bailout program.

The story showed how Canadaâ $ ™ s biggest bank was using a government program to cruelly exploit defenseless foreign workers while throwing Canadian citizens out of work.

Ottawa is making a bold push to have business play a bigger role in funding government social programs — asking Canada's corporate and charities sector to submit ideas that could ultimately form part of the 2013 budget.

Jean says «Without question, the biggest Alberta - based job - creation program that can be conceived of by any level of government over the next decade is building pipelines to get our products to tidewater.»

The UN Environment Program has launched a new campaign that they hope will equip both governments, big businesses and communities to help stem the world's food waste problem.

Please explain how Mitt Romney stands for anything but more & bigger, failing Democrat government programs.

The New Nationalism he put forward in his quixotic Bull Moose campaign for the presidency in 1912, with its sweeping program of federal regulation of the economy and guarantees for social welfare, set the blueprint for the big government crusades of Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Great Society.

Whatever one thinks of the objectives of these two big programs, which have brought or aim to bring massive chunks of American life under government control, they have been shocking so far in the incompetence of their administration.

... the federal government is now one of the biggest buyers of baby formula, through its nutritional programs for women and infant children.

I think the bigger issue is our «starve the government» mentality that has every agency (or in this case, school food program) supporting itself.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 introduced big changes to school nutrition standards (which govern school lunch and breakfast programs that receive federal government funding).

You may or may not be aware that in the United States, the biggest purchaser of infant formula is the US government via its WIC (Women, Infants & Children) nutrition program.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

The first big response of Western governments to the crisis was bank bailouts / recapitalization programs, which were, by almost every account, massively successful, and also almost immediately hated by the public.

It's still a 10 % increase and if we were talking about any other program it would be an insane amount of money, especially for a President and a political party that constantly claims government is too big and spends too much money.

«Donald Trump's economic program is desperately needed by the American economy, suffering from historically low growth because of the foolish big government policies of Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer,» Long said.

It gets more complicated because the terms morphed around the WWII era when the leftists started to support more «entitlement» programs like social security, which would mean bigger government and higher taxes, not necessarily tariffs on imports, or support for a monarchy but still more federal spending.

Despite this support, Mr. DiNapoli declined to participate in the program at the urging of good government groups who argued Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts to take big money out of politics were half - hearted at best.

Speaking on Citi FM's news analysis program, The Big Issue, the New Patriotic Party MP questioned why government would deliberately single out the violence in the NPP instead of providing adequate security in the...

But the biggest problem with government funding for an early - stage start - up is that it is sometimes hard to completely align the goals of the government - funded research program with the commercialization goals of the company.

The big change in GrantsNet is the addition of funding programs from all the U.S. government agencies that support science.

I raised the funds through grants from government and nonprofit programs, but the biggest challenge was that, to make a park, I had to walk the area and decide where the boundary should be.

To prevent any slippage, the report says, the federal government should reform the patent system to make litigation less common, ease financial regulations that may impose special burdens on start - up companies, and fund research programs aimed at some of the field's biggest challenges.

The incentive is one of the government's biggest programs to stimulate business investment in research and development.

Several big funding programs run out between 2015 and 2019, and the next government will shape their replacements.

He also spoke about SpaceX vying for government contracts, and how the Dragon V2 will be competing against other big players (most notably Boeing) for NASA's Commercial Crew Program to take astronauts to the ISS.

February 24, 2016 • U.S. consumers are enjoying extremely low gasoline prices, but the big drop in oil prices is causing hardship in nations that depend on oil production to fund their governments and social programs.

Big - government opponents often focus on its expense and power to compel, but Wallison argues it can be undemocratic and unconstitutional: Regulatory agencies are empowered to make crucial policy decisions, craft rules with the weight of law, and implement behemoth programs.

This would help program specialists like Zulfikur Ali Khan who said his biggest challenge in Afghanistan is the «capacity of the government responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the project in a qualitative and systematic manner.»

It makes little sense, says the Bush administration, to have state governments in charge of most funds for preschool, but to bypass them with regard to the single biggest preschool program.

But instead of just handing over big checks to school districts on the basis of need, the federal government showers the states with dozens of small programs.

Yet especially with Republicans taking office in statehouses and governorships since the commitments were made, the standards have been perceived by some as a political liability: a potentially big - government - seeming program that appears to standardize education across the country when state control has long been Conservative currency.

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

While the crowd at the AFC summit greeted DeVos with enthusiastic applause — especially when she commented on the importance of not replacing one big - government program with another — not everyone in Indianapolis was thrilled about her arrival.

Aside from all that, a big factor in Norway is because the government offers a comprehensive program to promote electric mobility, including removal of all toll fees, dedicated lanes on highways, the right to use bus lanes in the cities, free parking, free charging and other purchase incentives.