Sentences with phrase «debates over government spending»
Carney warned that debates over government spending for 2011 every two weeks «will be bad for the economy because of the uncertainty it creates.»
http://thehill.com/ Not exact matches
Similar criticisms were levied at the U.S. government in the 1940s, when the debate was over whether billions should be spent on building a national interstate highway system.
Given the debate over the federal deficit, government spending on social services, such as Medicare and Social Security is under increased scrutiny, with many Republicans mounting an all - out assault.
At Left Foot Forward, the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala offers a very interesting analysis of the debate over the government's deficit reduction and spending cuts programme.
«There is a longstanding debate over the impact of government spending, and people who are very smart disagree — one camp holds that a dollar of spending leads to more than a dollar in GDP growth, while the other camp holds that spending results in less than a dollar in GDP growth,» says Nora Traum, an associate professor of economics at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.
More importantly, perhaps, how NSF did spend the money illustrates an important point often lost in the sometimes highly partisan debates over government research spending: Most of those dollars go to educate the next generation of scientists.
Such a dilemma brings to question the debate over government subsidies, as well as the billions of dollars in federal spending that gets dumped into the research well.
From Transition Heathrow's squatter activism and subsequent police raid, to Transition activists engaging in debate over swinging government spending cuts, it's certainly true to say that to draw a fundamental line between community - building and politics is both impossible, and probably counter productive.
In Western Australia, there was debate over the state government's ban on ambulance ramping at three Perth hospitals, with the Opposition claiming it had failed, after it was revealed paramedics spent almost 350 hours at emergency departments last month.