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In a Budget, how
important is art versus
music versus athletics
versus computer
programming? At the
end of the day, some of
those trade-offs will be
made politically.
—bill GaTes

The Budget doesn’t have
much control over the The Budget should be balanced not by
government. Then again,
the government doesn’t more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
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have much control over
the Budget. —herberT hoover
—PJ o’rourke

The Budget evolved A Budget is telling your
from a management money where to go
tool into an obstacle to instead of wondering
management. where it went.
—Frank carlucci —dave ramsey
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Budgets are nothing
requirements seem
if not statements of FreD Prouser/reuters more likely to produce
priorities. accounting ingenuity
—JeFF merkley than genuinely
balanced budgets.
A Budget is more than —Thomas sowell
just a series of numbers
on a page; it is an
embodiment of The national Budget is
our values. We need a proper not a safe deposit box.
balance between It’s a spray can.
—barack obama government spending
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on nursing homes and

Budgets can make or last six months of life
break reputations and and the first six months Economy is idealism in
governments. of life. its most practical form.
—PriTi PaTel —Thomas Friedman —calvin coolidGe

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