The phrase
"public dime" refers to money that comes from the government or public funds. It is used to describe expenditure or financial resources that are provided or managed by the government, typically for the benefit of the general public.
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Reluctant partisan Mike Duffy explains the necessity of his travel on
the public dime.
You do realize that people that can not afford healthcare insurance will always be cared for on
the public dime anyway?
Are you willing to apply this same logic to all the crap Rick Perry does as a violation of the seperation of church and state when he does his prayers for «X» on
the public dime?
On
the public dime, right?
IF Mirosal is to be believed it has lived on
the public dime for a good many years undermining the country all the while personally safe from any serious threat.
ur the tax and spend liberal who's on
the public dime, no wonder our taxes are so high.
He wants taxpayer - funded political campaigns, allowing politicians to campaign exclusively on
the public dime and forcing you, the taxpayer, to cover the cost of their negative TV ads, mailers and robocalls.
Tony Avella has been on
the public dime his entire life.
If staff members were campaigning on
the public dime, it would fall to the Attorney General's Office to investigate.
«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on
the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.
How many kids received shit educations paid for on
the public dime because some asshat was protecting their turf?
BTWA will return to AF a building renovated on
the public dime.
The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides low - income students with the option of transferring from poorly performing public schools into private schools on
the public dime.
The difference, of course, is that Gavin is working on
the public dime and doing so is likely not allowed.
The only way to stop this abuse by parasites on
the public dime is to sack everyone you can and take a massive gouge out of the department, supposing you can not wind up the department entire.
Dr. Ben Santer, one of the climate modelers who works on
the public dime at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has called all his comrades to join him in a weep-fest over the «crime» of Climategate.
They were wasting the court's time, on
the public dime.