Deficit Spending Quotes - Page 2

• Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

  Peter Schiff

  Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars

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• I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

  Al Sharpton

  Born, Spending, Deficit

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• If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Needs, Done, Weapons

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.175, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Evil, Debt

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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