Sentences with phrase «massive pensions bill»

«The prospect of savings to the massive pensions bill should be an incentive for all wings of government to work together to prioritise closing the health gap.»

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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.

«A massive take of everyone's council tax bill is going on pension costs, rather than emptying bins weekly or cleaning the streets.

That is a massive drop I could understand maybe 20 or 30 %, but that is ridiculous That will sure lower morale The average worker is not even on 20k That won, t even pay the council tax, with the gas and electric Then you have food and other bills How do they expect you to live, if you have to wait longer for your state pension?

Republican Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton, charged that the bill amounted to nothing more than «one huge, massive and sustaining bailout of the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund.»