If you think they're going to substitute between different kinds of spending, then there's no new spending created - it's just substitution. Different people are getting the benefits of the spending, but there isn't any new kind of benefit generated.
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Related Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG We think there are no magic puddings ... any new spending and tax cuts will need to be paid for by c... DANIELLE WESTWATER If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. Th... PETER WELCH This conglomerate concept doesn't work, there is no synergy - just a bunch of people spending a larg... CARL ICAHN Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10... KARL ROVE The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help th... ADAM COHEN We are spending a substantial amount of money on benefits. AMY HILL The madness of wealth,” my mother mumbled. “Sometimes you think you’re spending money, but all... JOHN GREEN Would you really buy a computer early if computing prices are falling? ... You'll probably have a bi... BILL DUDLEY With incomes outpacing spending I think American consumers will keep spending like crazy going into ... SAL GUATIERI Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy. AARON KATZ Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer ... SHERROD BROWN The economics of the space industry are changing. Within so called 'NewSpace,' not only are ... DYLAN TAYLOR Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich wou... JEFFREY KLUGER These incubators are an excellent way for new businesses to share resources and therefore cut costs.... BARBARA STROTHER But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actu... CHARLES LIEBERMAN I don't approve of any new tax cuts until we can control our spending and address these deficits, LINCOLN CHAFEE If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the par... MURRAY ROTHBARD The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping thr... PAUL RYAN If we do get a housing slowdown, job growth is there to support a relatively decent pace of consumer... JAY FELDMAN Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spe... PAUL RYAN Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. ARMAND SALACROU Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it ARMAND SALACROU It's unusual to see a mayor with this kind of surplus not announcing some significant new spending p... DOUG TURETSKY There is no doubt people have started to think seriously now about Christmas spending. GARETH THOMAS It does a lot for the economy just having a whole bunch of extra people working there and spending m... LAWRENCE WHITE I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irrespon... JEFF FLAKE People are getting tired of going out to expensive restaurants and spending lots of money for seven ... LYNNE BIEN Consumers are going to be more mindful of spending. MICHELLE BOGAN Happiness comes from acquiring new skills, doing what you love, and spending time with people you en... LORRIN L. LEE The market has gone crazy, but we're not going to go crazy with it, OK? And if clubs want to spend t... WALT JOCKETTY You are looking at not spending any dollars and saying that the work that we have done on our buildi... KURT WALBORN Things are stabilizing but there is still not a change that would suggest a major new spending cycle... DAVID JOY There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spen... PETER BRIMELOW People are getting are little antsy. Spending for technology is going to be very product specific an... BILL KORNITZER Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. SOURCE UNKNOWN I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thous... GROVER NORQUIST The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes t... P. J. O'ROURKE Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prio... DINESH D'SOUZA Most men are pretty comfortable spending for this kind of purchase. DARRIN CODY Accept this for what it is: an emotional reaction to tragic circumstances. But are people going to s... KEN MAYLAND I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates ... DONNA DUBINSKY Companies are going to keep increasing spending this year to take advantage of the relatively low in... AZUSA KATO I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qua... SAMANTHA POWER Legislative leaders are passing up a chance to reduce New York State's excessive debt burden - alrea... DIANA FORTUNA It seems as if the rhetoric is getting worse and worse. A lot of that has to do with the fact that t... JOSEPH MARBACH This budget is a fraud on the people of New Jersey. He promised he would reduce spending. Instead, h... ALEX DECROCE After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of differen... CURTIS STONE Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. JACOB LEW If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a ... ROBERT HIGGS As consumers are clearly changing their spending attitude, the retail sector may continue to benefit... HARUKI TAKAHASHI There was a consensus for more spending for the military; it was just a question of how much. You co... RICHARD KOGAN Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for... PAUL RYAN There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be ... BARBARA RYAN The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their ... JIM JORDAN It's the most attentive audience that you're going to get. These people aren't just spending five mi... CHRIS RUSSO New Jersey does not need a new spending plan, what New Jersey needs is a savings plan. JOE SINAGRA Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m... PAUL DONOVAN You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orle... TROMBONE SHORTY In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ... EVAN DAVIS We will see a differentiation between chip companies that are exposed to pure IT spending and those ... JAYE MORENCY Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not gu... GROVER NORQUIST These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t... PAUL KRUGMAN I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budget... TOM GOLISANO No doubt there is a lot of overcapacity in the industry. Consumers today are spending more on their ... GILBERT HARRISON I don't think these low-income people are ready to adopt this purchasing style yet, ... It's differe... HELEN LAU The small multiplexes have created a market for different kinds of cinema and the new generation fil... TARAN ADARSH For the majority of shoppers, times are as good as you're going to expect. I think there's going to ... BERNARD SOSNICK I'm trying to be prepared for that without spending more money than necessary. So far, I don't think... MARK NICHOLAS It's kind of troublesome. They're getting around the intent of the law to require that parties and c... BEN WILCOX It's kind of troublesome. They're getting around the intent of the law to require that parties and c... BEN WILCOX There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only... ROBERT NOZICK Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. ANNE BRADSTREET The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy ... MARK SKOUSEN When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government s... MITCH DANIELS There are different kinds of people in the world. CHERYL JAMES You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we o... HAROLD FORD, JR. We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con... STEVEN WIETING I love dogs but I don't think they are an object of spending a bunch of money. ISAMU MAKINO Most of the losses of the year are tied to the fact that we're still flying old airplanes and we're ... BEN BALDANZA The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborho... JONATHAN KOZOL People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than sp... PAULA HAWKINS If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, ... BILL JOHNSON People are increasingly concerned, given what Wal-Mart said, that higher gas prices are going to hur... ALAN RIFKIN Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since... DAVID BOAZ In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then s... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that spending each moment of two minutes in God is much better than spending each moment of ... VIKRANT PARSAI Some industries will benefit from the anticipated strength in domestic spending and the planned acce... DENNIS DYKES We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an... RICHARD M. NIXON In spite of clear budgetary constraints, there hasn't been any attempt to reign in defense spending. WENDELL PERKINS It's a new market, the first service of its kind, serving a different type of customer, JACKIE BOSTICK I just think that's probably the way to go about it instead of spending all that money. DALE NEAL The PC is a big durable goods item now. When the economy is slowing, people tend to reduce their spe... STEPHEN BAKER Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by con... RONALD REAGAN Intel will be a key beneficiary of any kind of recovery in information technology [IT] spending in 2... KRISHNA SHANKAR We're not against spending the money on the kids, we're against the spending of money on everything ... HERB LEVINE The massive amounts of money they're spending means we can't get out of the way of it. Every time yo... DAVID MURRAY This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of sc... SCOTT KELLY The council is concerned about spending any amount of money on this. COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG I don't think it will make any difference. Regardless of what people spent in April, the fact that f... CAROL STONE
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It's like death. DENNIS QUAID To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. DENNIS WEAVER It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here. ADAM DENNIS A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,... ADAM DENNIS You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed. ADAM DENNIS No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t... ADAM DENNIS From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r... ADAM DENNIS That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back. ADAM DENNIS I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th... ADAM DENNIS Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ... DENNIS RAINEY After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second... DENNIS MILLER The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. DENNIS MILLER The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. DENNIS GREEN Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ... DENNIS WHOLEY There's something ugly about the flawless. DENNIS LEHANE See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough. DENNIS SHARPE Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ... DENNIS FRAKES Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging. PATRICK DENNIS Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. DENNIS RODMAN A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. JOHN DENNIS You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex... DENNIS HOPPER There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin... EVERETTE DENNIS For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ... DENNIS FRANZ Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis... DENNIS ALTMAN My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t... DENNIS CONNER How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w... DENNIS PRAGER The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ... DENNIS PRAGER Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. DENNIS PRAGER