Sentences with phrase «believe public dollars»

I do not believe public dollars should go to private schools.

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Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.

Is the public to believe that a criminal charge against banks holding trillions of dollars in assets is worth less than a 1 percent move in the bank's share price?

«We believe that public officials must be held to a higher standard, and whether intentional or not, misusing taxpayer dollars is unacceptable,» wrote Sens. Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., and Jon Tester, D - Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee, and Reps. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., and Tim Walz, D - Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House committee.

JK If you're talking about public schools, schools supported by everyone's tax dollars, please explain to me why my tax dollar would go to promote the belief in a god that I don't believe is real?

You expect me to believe that a bunch of guys that have been around football their entire lives, have access to troves of video, interviews, statistics, and expert opinions that are not available to the general public, and get paid millions of dollars to evaluate the talent of football players and sign them to contracts might know MORE about evaluating football players and signing them to contracts then the patrons of a Dallas Cowboys internet blog?

«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts without the very transparency and accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

I believe that we can look at possibilities at some point to bring the public dollars though.

«I believe that fiscal reform can restore public trust in state government and enhance the state's ability to act in the best interest of all New Yorkers,» DiNapoli said to the crowd seated in the Grand Ballroom of the Yale Club - mostly men in suits from places like the Building Trades Employers» Association, Cablevision, Nicholas & Lence Communications, and Brown and Weinraub PLLC, whose companies spent thousands of dollars for tables of ten to attend the breakfast event.

In one of Brooklyn's most rapidly changing districts, where brownstones sell for millions of dollars around the corner from deteriorating public housing complexes, Council Member Laurie Cumbo believes that arts and culture can be a unifying factor.

«As a county legislator, I believe it is critical to be kept abreast on the New Stadium Working Group's discussions in order for the Legislature to make informed decisions when voting on a matter concerning public dollars and county resources.

Assemblyman Will Barclay, R - Pulaski: No «I do not believe public tax dollars should be used to fund political campaigns.

GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.

At A + Denver, we believe that Denver Public Schools stands a good chance at being awarded some of these dollars and many other Colorado districts should consider applying as well, given the favorable policy environment in Colorado.

Millions of dollars in financial aid are available, just in case you're not a celebrity dad (who totally believes in public schools... for other people), like Matt Damon.

«I really firmly believe and our case is such that the constitution itself speaks to the actual use of the public dollars going to public schools,» Ritz says.

Furthermore, while I'm not a freedom from religion nut, I do believe it is fundamentally wrong to use public state dollars to pay for education in religious schools.

Governor Rick Scott and his education advisor, Michelle Rhee, believe that billions of public school dollars are better spent on for - profit charter school management companies (CMOs).

ConnCAN's five - hundred - thousand - dollar, broad - based effort, was aimed at demonizing teachers, teacher unions and those who believe in the sanctity of true public education.

«I personally believe that public dollars should go to public schools,» she said in a statement.

Some people - including President - elect Donald Trump - believe that to improve U.S. education, the nation should stop spending so many tax dollars on public schools and instead invest in alternatives, including charter schools and taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and religious schools.

I believe tax dollars must remain within the transparent and democratically accountable public school system.

Whether the word is «public,» «for - profit,» «parochial,» or «online,» taxpayer dollars should subsidize all options, she believes.

Everyone who believes that Connecticut needs a better, stronger and more diverse economy should recognize the importance of investing public dollars into the bio-sciences, including genome related research.

«We really, truly believe taxpayer dollars are meant to be used for public school funding, not religious education.»

GOP leaders want you to believe that the best way to rebuild our schools is by completely wiping away the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin and building a contingency of schools with full autonomy and no accountability, even though they are entitled to public dollars.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

In fact, had the EPA's (and successive, sycophantic governments) enforced the mandate they were given, some 40 years ago (to protect the environment and public health) no - one would be debating Australia's and America's degraded state of the environment and billions of futile dollars would not have been bled from taxpayers to remediate the damage caused by corporate eco-terrorists who are sufficiently deluded in believing they have a mandate to pollute with impunity.

I believe there has been zero progress since the Charney report in better defining climate sensitivity, in spite of hundreds of billions of dollars of public funding since then.

«We are skeptical that a significant amount of carbon would ever be sequestered in this manner, and don't believe this is where scarce public research dollars devoted to energy should be spent.

Ultimately, how successful Spotify's public offering is will depend on whether investors believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to profitability and how sustainable its business model is, not just for its own bottom dollar, but for the artists that are its lifeblood.

«Mr. Keil believes that Magic Leap does not want these items disclosed in the public forum and has demanded payment of millions of dollars from Magic Leap in exchange for not publicly filing these baseless whistleblower claims.

Recognizing Our Accomplished Realtors Awards was a marvellous way to include the Public into the inner workings of what it takes for Realtors to deviop into true professionals, at our personal expense; rather than concentrating on sales Production, members of Million Dollar Clubs etc which encourage the Public to believe we are all Millionaires and only interested in making money more than giving value.

John Wright, senior vice-president for Ipsos Public Affairs presented the results, which indicate that 70 per cent of Torontonians approve of the overall performance of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and that 65 per cent believe that Toronto City Council is on the right track managing taxpayer dollars.

If you believe that you will lose some business ($ $ $ $ $... the numbers game) by charging more than anyone else (because you believe that you really are better than every one else based upon your knowledge and moral fibre) then you are opting for the numbers game, ergo the commission game, ergo the most dollars in your pocket sifted from amongst the most deals possible based upon a «cheaper - is - better» appeal to the public at large (which the ill - informed public naively wants to believe too often).

Because of salespeople who puff up their personal statistics, the public doesn't believe the «million dollar producer» or «best salesperson in the business» promotions.