Sentences with phrase «nations people spend»

«One of the reasons America has stayed strong and great is because we have the cheapest food around,» Duran said, noting that in many nations people spend 40 percent or more of their incomes on food.

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As India launches the first smartphone into space, critics are questioning how a nation with so many people living in poverty should spend money to expand a space program.
I think that exploiting this hurricane of people who lost their house — houses to allow business as usual in Washington of getting an 18 month increase to our nation's debt limit passed, of continuing to spend money that we can't afford, that we don't have, makes absolutely no sense.
In Bangladesh people spent three months of 1998 living in the thigh - deep water that covered two - thirds of the nation.
It's neat that one of our nation's founders chose to spend his time putting a special book together, for himself, but also probably hoping that people would look at it long after he was gone.
Yet the Congressional Military Industrial Complex a cadre of congress people who chair and sit on committees that authorize military spending have bankrupted the nation and in the wake of 9 - 11 created a host of liberty robbing laws that are the anti-thesis to what our founders wanted.
Even the chapter looking at the Promise Keepers and the Nation of Islam tends to portray those movements as the escapist activities of people whose energies would be better spent on progressive political causes.
The secular people, well it's not just secular people, the people of this nation and other nations as well, spend so much money on nonsense that if it could have been used to help the unfortunate in this world, there would be no hunger.
Some persons perhaps, crushed by the burden of medical expenses, had no objection to a cold - war garrison state as such, yet they could wonder about a nation that spent far more on weapons than on health coverage.
As nations, the two things that we spend most of our money on, is killing people and trying to keep people alive.
Given that (A) SB Nation is a company at which people work, and (B) it is the Monday after the Super Bowl, many of our colleagues have spent some time Monday discussing the best and worst Super Bowl halftime shows ever.
NOTES TO EDITORS: For further comment / interview, please contact Simon Marsh 07951 389 197 or [email protected] The chemical industry in the UK: • Contributes # 75 million every day to the UK economy • spends over # 5 billion each year on research and development • invests almost # 2 billion a year in capital expenditure • generates a trade surplus of # 5 billion every year • Provides employment for over half a million people in well - paid jobs And is the nation's number one manufacturing exporter
Now the 2015 election is just over a year away, we know the political context in which it can be deployed: the «good society» breaks the economic deadlock by opening up a way to spend money better, and fits in with Miliband's broader «One Nation» dialogue about helping the little people deal with the faceless monolithic institutions of the private — and now, the public — sectors.
«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending and taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people
«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending - and - taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people,» Cuomo writes.
[Cuomo repeatedly insisted that the failure of the panel to come to an agreement on reducing the nation's debt — either through a mix of tax increases and spending cuts — said more about the government itself than any individual person.]
«Similarly the government's programme to spend six weeks meeting people from different backgrounds in the summertime... [is being funded] by withdrawing funding from a multiplicity of initiatives across the nation involving volunteers,» Dame Elisabeth added.
«Receiving these ratings from our nation's leading credit agencies validates our fiscal policies and shows that our growing tax base and willingness to cut spending and limit debt, has led to investments that are growing our economy,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «The stronger our fiscal position, the more successfully the county can deliver for the people
«To own one's own house, or business, or the capital which produced one's retirement income extended freedom of choice, gave people a stake in the nation's wealth, and required less tax - payer's money to be spent on them.
People of color account for 18 % ($ 1.3 trillion a year) of the nation's spending, according to the University of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth.
In some nations, health spending may be as little as $ 2 or $ 3 per person.
DeScioli points out that the finding translates to many situations in which people need to divvy up resources such as family members dividing an estate, business partners dividing profits, citizens deciding how tax dollars will be spent, or nations dividing territory.
Researchers at Georgetown University spent a month watching people ride bikes around the nation's capital.
We could dramatically improve the health of a nation — if people like Piers Morgan would spend more time telling the public about the dangers of highly - refined, simple sugars and trans fats found in most processed foods.
As most folks take the day off to celebrate our nation's Presidents (because I'm sure that's how people are spending their free time: celebrating US Presidents), it's a bit of a slow news day.
Much of the blame for the disaster in our nation's public schools today can be traced to the Walton family's wealth, which in turn comes from the money people spend in their stores on school supplies and other items.
The average OECD nation spent $ 9,313 per young person.
When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $ 15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.
As Democrats hustle to shovel a billion dollars into President Obama's campaign coffers — making promises to rich people and their corporations every step of the way — America's billionaires are spending even more money to seize control of the nation's public schools.
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.
When your Dropout Nation editor has been brought low by that horrible viral - based disease called Influenza, it not only forces him to spend days sleeping in bed (when not coughing and other disgusting aspects of being sick), but limits him to reading a lot of really smart people writing and saying dumb things.
I spent seven nights cruising around the island nation with Celestyal Cruises and their «people to people» Cuban itinerary aboard the Celestyal Crystal.
Earlier in Demise of nations, people used to spend a lot of money to...
they are more guilty then the average folk in causing harm to the people of the world including the thrid world nations (spending trillions on bank bailouts, wars, etc), they have done nothing to mitgate their poverty, but have made it worse by their controls over the govs, and they have caused more harm by their instigating wars between nations funding both sides and frankly making a pure nusiance out of themselves so if you want to trust such people I feel sorry for you, they do not care about you.
Developing nations, by contrast, have spent far less and are still busy bringing millions of people out of abject poverty.
3 The fact is that in many countries (such as Canada, Japan, and many European nations) with equitable, population - wide access to medical care, not only do people live longer, healthier lives than in the U.S., but less money (per capita) is spent on both health care and biomedical research.
Yet by spending just $ 10 billion annually on direct food aid, the United Nations estimates that we could help 229 million hungry people now.
Seven billion people on the planet need to be fed, so maybe longer growing seasons and wider growing regions will benefit the planet more than spending tens of trillions and bankrupting nations.
If this nation's military spending was just cut back to doubling its nearest rival, China, it would free up funding for domestic environmental programs, job creation programs, and programs to directly help people at home.
We spend more time in them than most people in other nations would believe.
One answer is provided by going to the headlines in the nation's most influential mass media outlet The Australian: from 4th September «Aboriginal split: 5.6 pc of funds, 2.6 pc of population» (pc in this case refers to % not political correctness); and «Indigenous spend topping $ 25bn: The question is has the two - year surge benefited the 575,000 people
Our Government needs to Stop Spending, and start reducing our Debt, Start Protecting our Homeland 1rst, Stay out of other countries and there mess, We need to Rebuild our Nation and get a grip on our Government, Our Government Representatives were hired to do what the people want, not what it takes to get relected or to Benefit there pockets, They were Voted to Office because of what they said they are going to do, We agreed and Voted them in, and in return we got BACK STABBED, Let's take back OUR COUNTRY, Fix Our Crooked Government, Lower the Unemployment Rate and Watch our Economy & Housing Rise back up..
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