Sentences with phrase «massive federal and state government»

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But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

He has been a stalwart critic of the federal government's consistent overreach, and the state government's passing down of expensive mandates, such as massive Medicaid burdens that gobble up precious local resources.

The government has also embarked on massive reconstruction and rehabilitation of the dilapidated Biu - Azare — Shaffa - Garkida federal highway linking Gombi Local Government Area of Adamgovernment has also embarked on massive reconstruction and rehabilitation of the dilapidated Biu - Azare — Shaffa - Garkida federal highway linking Gombi Local Government Area of AdamGovernment Area of Adamawa state.

That law placed sharp limits on state and local tax deductions to help replenish federal government coffers depleted by massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

But it feels odd to have this massive problem going on with the United States federal government and to pretend it is not happening.

Right now the government is on a massive spending spree in Louisiana to help fix up the state, but unfortunately, none of these funds are being allocated towards credit card relief and debt consolidation programs, besides for the federal student loan consolidation programs currently in place.

The massive ditchweed eradication program has cost federal and state governments at least $ 175 million since 1984, the earliest year data is available on ditchweed.

Forbes: Almost lost in all the news about the federal government «shutdown» (which has somehow left 83 % of the government funded and functioning) over the last week are several new reports regarding the ongoing massive oil and natural gas Shale Revolution in the United States, and the role Texas is playing in making it happen...