Sentences with phrase «used military spending»

The analysis used military spending to create a ratio because the nature of the blog post posits education spending against military spending.

Not exact matches

Ahead of that deadline, the administration told Congress that it will indeed use the money, but is putting a «pause» on spending it or on assigning any funds to specific sales of military equipment to the Pakistanis.

David Stockman discusses how the Deep State propaganda is used for endless military spending that is in large part responsible for bankrupting the Anglo - American empire.

The NUCLEAR «stick» is the Big Deterrence and thousand of «mini drones» can be used to «secure and hold» an area while our people stay home and run the show for about 1 % of what we spend on a useless «Military Presence».

The report concludes, «Most economic models show that military spending diverts resources from productive uses, such as consumption and investment, and ultimately slows economic growth and reduces employment.»

And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

Rhodes also said the United States spends more on its military «then the next seven nations combined» and that it should focus more on diplomacy and reforming military spending so that more money can be used on education.

«I spent 5 years in the military and I'm used to dealing with bureaucracy,» he explains.

Using the model, coastal managers can assess tradeoffs ─ spending vs. benefits ─ of beach nourishment that will provide the most benefit for vulnerable species, adjacent residential areas and military installations, Muñoz - Carpena said.

On the spending side, reconciliation can be used to address «mandatory» or entitlement spending — that is, programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, federal civilian and military retirement, SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), and farm programs — but not Social Security.

Mr. Obama, who has spent much of his presidency seeking to wean the United States off a perpetual state of war, is now putting forward unjustifiable interpretations of the executive branch's authority to use military force without explicit approval from Congress.»

The online schools have enabled entrepreneurs like Michael R. Milken, whose company Knowledge Universe started K12 a decade ago and who remains an investor, to use education as a source of government - financed business, much as military contractors have capitalized on Pentagon spending.

The following 16 countries were not used to create the average education spending to average military spending ratio: Andorra, Bhutan, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Guinea, Iceland, Iran, Laos, Mozambique, Niger, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal.

I used the total amount of education spending at the primary and secondary education levels and divided that into the total amount of military expenditures.

However, because SIPRI's analysis of military expenditure using constant USD relied on 2011 dollars, I had to adjust for inflation for countries with education spending data from 2011 or 2012.

The senator who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election has never suffered fools — or equivocating witnesses — gladly, and he would be certain to use his new perch for tough questioning about Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and military spending.

Funny (sadly) article... I use TNR, since I spent 40 years in the military / technical arena, and never thought twice about it.

Today, I've teamed up with Navy Federal Credit Union to talk about credit cards, their uses, responsible spending, and how they can affect a military family.

Military buyers using their VA loan benefits won't typically need to spend years saving for a down payment.

It used the provision of aid as a benchmark solution, and then suggested the following: linking aid to limits on military spending; sending significant military forces into nations emerging from conflict to reduce the risk of a relapse into violence; providing (and having the ability to back up) a promise that a military force will intervene when a democratically elected government is threatened by violence.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

Especially considering that a large - but - impossible - to - quantify amount of defense budget expenditures are used to militarily secure petroleum exporting regions — this is just backwards: According to the Institute for Policy Studies, for every $ 1 the US spends on climate security (funding cleantech like renewable energy or high speed rail), it will spend $ 42 on the military.

With its giant boost to military spending, the Trudeau government is gearing up for more Western adventurism, using NATO to prop up a failing finance capitalism by military threats.

Like many other government departments, the military use Resumix software to help cut down the amount of time spent on looking through resumes.