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| | Government spending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Government spending consists of government purchases, including transfer payments, which can be financed by seigniorage (the creation of money for government funding), taxes, or government borrowing. | | | As of September 2004 the U.S. Congressional Budget Office reported that federal government spending for 2004 was projected to be $2,293 billion, or slightly less than 20% of the GDP. | | | John Maynard Keynes was one of the first economists to advocate government deficit spending as a way to cure an economic contraction. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending
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| | Tutor2u - government spending |
| | Government spending in 2001 is forecast to be £370 billion. | | | Within this total the government will spend £103 billion on social security benefits, £54 billion on the NHS, £46 billion on education and £28 billion in interest payments on debt. | | | Increases in government spending on state provided goods and services add to total domestic demand and can have multiplier effects on the final level of equilibrium national income. |
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http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/content/topics/fiscalpolicy/public_spending.htm
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| | Grandfather Florida Government Spending Report Home Page - MWHodges |
| | From 1947 to 1963 to 2000, Florida increased its spending from 6% of the economy (GSP) to 19%. | | | And, this dropped further because the federal government's spending share of the economy increased from a 16% share to a 23% share. | | | This drop is because Florida's state and local government spending zoomed from a 6% share of the economy in 1947 to over 19% by 2003 - - a 217% increase in said share. |
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http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/florida/florida.htm
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| | Grandfather Government Spending Economic Report by MWHodges |
| | spending and $1.6 trillion spending by state and local governments. | | | This Government Spending report (sum federal plus state and local government) is a chapter of the Grandfather Economic Report series, revealing negative economic conditions facing families and their children, compared to prior generations - - from debt to education to trade to national security. | | | Much of the slight 'drop' in the spending ratio during the past several years is a result of changes in measurement criteria for calculating national income and inflation, which overstates national income and therefore understates the spending ratio compared to the past. |
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http://mwhodges.home.att.net/mwhodges.htm
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| | Gottheil SG Government Spending |
| | Government spending is more than an instrument of fiscal policy. | | | To the extent that government spending moves resources away from the provision of private goods to the provision of public goods, resource allocation is affected. | | | Government spending has increased from about 28.3 percent of GDP in 1970 to 34.5 percent of GDP in 1996. |
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http://www.swlearning.com/economics/gottheil/government_spending.html
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| | Budget Surpluses, Deficits and Government Spending |
| | As indicated earlier, budget surpluses can be used to finance more government spending, but they also can be used to finance tax or debt reductions. | | | In a given year, the government could have a budget surplus using cash accounting, but a budget deficit using accrual methods that count as expenses (outlays) in this time period newly created liabilities of the government that will be funded in future years (e.g., increased pension obligations for federal government workers). | | | For example, when the federal government has a deficit using cash accounting of, say, $200 billion, it implies that government-induced demand for loanable funds will be high, with attendant effects on financial markets (e.g., probable higher interest rates) and on the ability of the private sector to borrow. |
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http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/budget/surplus2/surplus2.htm
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| | Tax Subsidies: The Hidden Part of Government Health Care Spending |
| | Government spending (as a share of total consumption) in the hospital sector has been growing 2-1/2 times faster than private sector spending. | | | Direct government spending has increased from 24 percent of all health care spending in 1960 to 40 percent in 1990. | | | Spending on Medicare and Medicaid has skyrocketed from 5.9 percent of total health care spending in 1967 (the first full year of Medicare and Medicaid expenditures) to 28 percent in 1990. |
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http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/w/w3.html
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| | Federal Spending Soars Under Bush's Watch |
| | As spending was rising, tax reductions reduced Treasury revenues and are responsible for about one-third of this year's deficit, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. | | | Overall spending is up by at least 16 percent since he took office, far more than the 2 percent average annual inflation rate over the same period. | | | Some of the biggest spending increases, at least in percentage terms, have come in programs related to the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq, such as the controversial $87 billion measure that Congress approved this fall. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1204-03.htm
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| | Government Size and Economic Growth |
| | The data on government spending as a percent of GDP are based on fiscal year data. | | | Thus, government spending may not be the casual factor in the slowdown in the rate of economic growth. | | | Prior to 1916, it was rare for federal government spending to exceed 3 percent of total output except during wars. |
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http://www.house.gov/jec/growth/govtsize/govtsize.htm
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| | Webguild Sentinel Government Spending |
| | According to Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group that monitors congressional spending, the Republicans authorized $14.5 billion in pork-barrel spending in 1996, a 16% increase over the previous year and the highest amount since it began monitoring in 1990. | | | Republicans have held to their "smaller government is best" mantra for decades, claiming that they had no mandate, or the Democrats were controlling congress and imposing their wasteful spending. | | | In their first three budgets under the Clinton administration, Republicans increased federal spending by $183 billion, compared to a three-year increase of $155 billion by a Democratically controlled Congress. |
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http://www.webguild.com/sentinel/spending.htm
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| | Carried Away: U.S. Government Spending As a Percentage of GDP |
| | U.S. Government Spending As a Percentage of GDP | | | Rather, spending as a percentage of the economy decreased. | | | As such, it was much easier for him to decrease spending as a percentage of the economy, even leaving aside the probability that he would have been forced to take countercyclical measures against the recession had he faced one. |
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http://carriedaway.blogs.com/carried_away/2003/10/us_government_s.html
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| | Patrick Basham on Campaign-Finance Reform and Government Spending on National Review Online |
| | Nevertheless, the most important factor driving campaign finance upward is "more government." Simply stated, the growth of government spending fosters the growth in campaign spending. | | | Almost 70,000 government bodies are authorized to impose taxes on Americans. | | | found that 87 percent of the rise in federal campaign spending between 1976 and 1994 was attributable to the $1,101 per capita rise (in real terms) in federal government spending. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/basham200405250849.asp
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| | Economic Survey of Japan 2005: Achieving fiscal sustainability |
| | The objective of freezing government expenditures as a share of GDP should be achieved through FY 2006 and continued efforts to restrain spending are necessary in the future. | | | Strong economic growth and spending restraint reduced the deficit in the primary budget (which excludes net interest payments) from 6¼ per cent of GDP in 2003 to an estimated 5 per cent in 2004. | | | Addressing the government's budget deficit should be an important aspect of an exit policy as it would help avoid an abrupt rise in interest rates. |
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http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34287541_1_1_1_1,00.html
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| | U.S. government to boost IT spending CNET News.com |
| | Government IT spending is projected to top $63 billion in 2007, providing at least some measure of hope for struggling technology companies, according to a report released by Input, a marketing company specializing in technology and government. | | | U.S. government spending on information systems and services will grow 11 percent annually from $37.1 billion in fiscal 2002 to $63.3 billion in fiscal 2007, Input's report says. | | | Federal technology spending was flat through 2000 and 2001, but should see a sharp increase this year, going up as much as 15 percent in fiscal 2003, Lucier said. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1017-913223.html
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| | Secure Economic Growth Tomorrow by Freezing the Budget Today |
| | Gessing is Director of Government Affairs for the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union Foundation, the research arm of the National Taxpayers Union, a non-partisan citizen group founded in 1969 that works for lower taxes, less wasteful spending, and accountable government at all levels. | | | After the unprecedented run-up in spending over his first three years in office, President Bush's budget is an attempt to restore his credibility on spending restraint via the elimination of 65 programs costing about $4.9 billion annually. | | | However, if the $50 billion were properly accounted for as additional defense spending in the President's budget request, defense spending would leap by more than 20 percent under Bush's budget 2005 budget plan. |
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http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=565&org_name=NTUF
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| | Ten Guidelines for Reducing Wasteful Government Spending |
| | Lawmakers courageously restrained spending in the mid-1990s but have since abandoned fiscal responsibility in favor of bloated budgets that assume there is no problem bigger government cannot solve. | | | All government spending--even that financed by borrowing--must eventually be paid for with taxes. | | | Federal spending subsequently skyrocketed as a paralyzed Congress decided that budget confrontations with the Clinton White House could never be won and should be avoided at all costs. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1622.cfm
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| | Government Spending and Financing |
| | You would think that the amount that the government spends is determined by the expenses it has. | | | What the government spends, on the other hand, is not determined by real need. | | | Based on this observation then, the only way to control government spending is to control it's income. |
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http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/civics/gov-acct.html
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| | Grandfather Federal Government Spending Report - summary - by MWHodges |
| | The Government Spending Report and the Government Growth Report show the federal government increased its spending at a rate much faster than growth of the economy (nearly twice as fast) since the end of World War II). | | | Had total federal spending been reduced following World War II, equivalent to reductions of the defense spending ratio, the current federal spending ratio would be about 13% of the economy - - instead of today's 26% ratio - - resulting in 50% less spending and taxes. | | | The full report (link below) shows once the social spending ratio rose above 5% of national income in the late 1960s, citizen trust in government plummeted to half prior levels - - and inflation-adjusted median family incomes stagnated for all families and fell for single wage-earner families. |
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http://mwhodges.home.att.net/fed_budget.htm
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| | Report: Government spending on ERP will rise |
| | That figure marks a 37 percent increase over fiscal 2004 spending of $5.6 billion. | | | Spurred by growth in financial and supply chain management procurements, Input expects defense spending on ERP to reach $2.7 billion in 2009. | | | However, ERP spending by the Defense Department will increase faster than that of civilian agencies. |
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http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/24297-1.html
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| | Lance T. Izumi on Bush, Friedman & Hayek on NRO Financial |
| | Besides his costly prescription-drug program, Bush wants to spend billions of tax dollars on new government initiatives ranging from a manned moon mission to programs for strengthening marriage to increased spending on existing programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts. | | | That's why the current federal spending spree isn't just a budget issue, but a freedom issue. | | | The president seems not to fully realize that taxation and spending policies are more than just fiscal tools to improve economic performance or address group demands. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/izumi200402060852.asp
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| | Under Bush, Federal Spending Increases at Fastest Rate in 30 Years: News Releases: The Independent Institute |
| | Furthermore, the projected spending for 2005 is a conservative estimate, since it doesn’t include at least $50 billion for the 2005 cost of the Iraq occupation. | | | From the massive increases in agricultural subsidies in the farm bill of 2002, to the new Medicare prescription drug entitlement of 2003; from the 47% increase in the defense budget, to the 80% increase in education spending, George W. Bush has demonstrated that “limited government” is not part of his political vocabulary. | | | Since 2001, even with record low inflation, U.S. federal spending has increased by a massive 28.8% (19.7% in real dollars)—with non-defense discretionary growth of 35.7% (25.3% in real dollars)—the highest rate of federal government growth since the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. |
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http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=31
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| | Bush's Spending Lie - It's one thing to lie to Democrats, another to lie to your comrades. By Timothy Noah |
| | The majority of federal spending is mandatory spending. | | | The topic was "discretionary spending," which is Washington-ese for money that Congress appropriates directly, as opposed to "mandatory spending," which is made up of interest payments on government debt and entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. | | | It seems almost gratuitous to add that in the last year of President Clinton's term, discretionary spending was up not 15 percent, but 3 percent, and that domestic discretionary spending was up not 15 percent, but 5 percent. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2095237
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| | Press Release - Government Spending is Contributing to College Price Inflation, Economist Tells Congress |
| | As government spending has grown, he noted, it has failed to produce the expected growth in student access. | | | Vedder recommended that Congress work to enact a Higher Education Act reauthorization bill that slows federal spending growth and promotes quality alternatives for higher education consumers who are not being well-served by some traditional colleges and universities. | | | Decades of huge spending increases by government have failed to do anything to curb hyperinflation in college prices, Vedder noted in his testimony. |
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http://edworkforce.house.gov/press/press109/first/04apr/hea041905.htm
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| | FactCheck.org Defending Spending? Bush's Blooper |
| | In the first year for which President Bush signed the spending bills discretionary spending growth soared to 13.1%, and annual growth remained in double digits through the current fiscal year. | | | A Bush spokesman said the President meant to refer to discretionary spending minus military spending and spending for homeland security. | | | Discretionary spending -- meaning spending that is subject to annual legislative appropriations, as opposed to spending for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare -- actually grew only 5.6% in |
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http://www.factcheck.org/article139.html
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| | The Federal Pie Chart |
| | The Center for Defense Information (CDI) has used "discretionary" spending — budget items that Congress is allowed to tinker with — which excludes so-called "mandatory" spending items (such as interest on the national debt and retirement pay). | | | Outlays refer to spending done in a particular fiscal year, whereas budget authority refers to new spending authorized over a period of several future years. | | | Consequently, calculations of military spending should consider the function of the budget item regardless of the department or agency in charge of it. |
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http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
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| | The Truth About Government Spending in Alabama |
| | Clearly, the problem with Alabama state government is not inadequate revenues, but excessive spending. | | | The total amount of state government spending in Alabama is $3,862 per person. | | | Perhaps some illustrations of the things on which the state spends [squanders?] your money might be in order. |
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http://www.freealabama.com/archive/budget.htm
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| | Government Spending - Notes |
| | Public expenditure is spending by central government, local government, and nationalised industries. | | | A slump reduces spending on imports, thus improving the balance of payments. | | | A boom increases spending on imports, causing balance of payments problems. |
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http://www.bized.ac.uk/learn/economics/govpol/notes/spending.htm
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| | How government spending creates wealth, opportunities |
| | The feds will spend more in interest on the debt this year than all discretionary spending on education, health, human services, housing and urban development combined. | | | Without significant government investment in the public service infrastructure, there would be significantly less affluence in America. | | | Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest person, maintains government investments are responsible for a ''very significant percentage'' of his earnings. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/martire/cst-edt-mart17.html
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| | The Theories of John Maynard Keynes [Virtual Economy] |
| | When times were good again and the private sector was spending again, the government could trim its spending and pay off the debts they accumulated in the slump. | | | such as cutting taxes or boosting government spending to push aggregate demand higher and boost employment and output. | | | If the private sector was not prepared to spend to boost demand, the government should instead. |
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http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/library/economists/keynesth.htm
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| | Bush Seeks Broad Cuts in 2006 Nonsecurity Government Spending - US Department of State |
| | Discretionary spending includes money for government agencies and programs for which funding levels are determined and controlled by Congress in annual appropriations bills. Such spending constitutes about one-third of all federal expenditures. | | | In a message introducing the budget request, Bush said his call for fiscal discipline builds on his previous administration’s efforts to bring down spending but requires Congress to apply stricter measures in the budget process. | | | In its budget proposal, the administration said that achieving deficit reduction through spending restraint rather than tax increases will bolster confidence in the U.S. economy. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/ei/Archive/2005/Feb/08-496553.html
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| | Public Spending and Services Index |
| | The Government’s long-term goal is to establish world class public services through investment and reform to ensure that taxpayers receive real value for money. Strong and dependable public services are vital to extend opportunity, tackle social exclusion and improve people’s quality of life. | | | Brings together historic data, recent outturn data, estimated outturns for the latest year and the latest Budget or Pre-Budget Report projections and budgetary plans over the whole range of UK public finances and spending. | | | Access the 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 Spending Reviews, as well as related Public Service Agreements (PSA) |
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http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/public_spending_and_services/pss_index.cfm
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| | Study: Government Spending More on IT |
| | Despite the economic downturn, spending in the federal sector continues to grow, spurred by homeland security initiatives and e-government, according to a recent research report. | | | Input Inc., a Chantilly, Va., market research company that specializes in the public sector, said federal spending on IT products and services will grow to $68.2 billion in 2008, up from $45.4 billion for fiscal 2003. | | | Study: Government Spending More on IT All Ziff Davis Sites |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1046160,00.asp
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| | Scotsman.com News - Government spending |
| | A ROOT and branch review of Scottish public spending which will result in hundreds of millions of... | | | Good news for public finances as tax helps to narrow budget shortfall | | | Government spending: page 1 of 7 next page |
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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=469
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| | HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - Conservative News, Views & Books |
| | Eliminate all federal spending subsidies to individuals or corporations with an income of more than $1 million. | | | To the contrary, the goal of this Congress, which has the largest Republican majorities of any period in my lifetime, should be to reduce government spending in real terms. | | | Require financial audits of every federal agency, and deny spending increases to agencies that fail the audits. |
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6435
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| | Federal, State, and Local Governments - Main Page |
| | General Information • State Government • Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finances • State and Local Government Finances | | | General Information • Federal Government • State Government • State and Local Government • Local Government | | | Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue |
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http://www.census.gov/govs/www
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| | Citizens Against Government Waste: Homepage |
| | As recently highlighted in Parade magazine, CAGW is the source of information on government waste and, backed by our members, CAGW works tirelessly everyday to win cuts in wasteful spending. | | | is wasting your money, and action alerts so that you can take part in urgent tax and spending battles. | | | Plus, take our latest survey and vote for the most absurd government expenditure ever. |
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http://www.cagw.org
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| | ABC 7 News - I-Team: P.G. Government Spending |
| | ABC 7 News - I-Team: P.G. Government Spending | | | Zalee Harris, County resident: "I think we're dealing with a basic principle here, and the use of resources, which are supposed to be precious." | | | There's nobody out to kill you, you're not in the witness protection program. |
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