Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences, for example, have been a double disaster, diverting a lot of money from the war on serious crime and turning huge numbers of minor miscreants into hardened criminals.
Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Only lack of money when war began obliged him to cancel the project.
The winding down of the Iraq war also will save money, Orszag says, adding that the administration is poring over the budget in search of efficiency gains.
Even in America's war of independence, the revolutionaries printed money to finance their campaign.
Just ask anyone who has lived through a war and watched the value of paper money evaporate overnight as the cost of bread kept rising.
She praised U.S. forces as "the best in the world" but said the costs of the war in lives and money were placing an undue burden on the nation.
Instead, on his return to Pakistan on the eve of World War II he borrowed money from his father to set up a factory to dehydrate and can vegetables and fruits, which he then sold to the British troops.
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The US government did not print paper money at this time, as it had during the War for Independence, but there was plenty of paper money in use, which was issued by private banks.
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For most of this time, the country has been at war and piracy has now become an attractive way of making money, with ransom payments reaching tens of millions of dollars.
So what I've said is let's take half of the money that we're saving after a decade of war and let's put people back to work.
Allegations of impropriety in the awarding of contracts in the US, chaos at the occupation authority that ran post-war Iraq and large sums of Iraqi oil money disappearing apparently without any record of how it was spent.
Firms with sufficient persistence which is to say, firms with plenty of money to spend on patent lawyers can usually win this war of attrition.
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And I think the economy, then, the war hinges on the economy since so much of our surplus - so much of our money, which is not so surplus is going to the war.
The Coalition for International Justice recently issued a damning report called Following Taylor's Money: A Path of War and Destruction.
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At the time of the appeal, UN special envoy Catherine Bertini warned that that the conflict with Ethiopia had resulted in both countries "diverting huge sums of money and resources to the war effort" rather than to drought-relief.
They also uncovered one of the darker truths of the war: the vast armies of private gunmen paid to protect American supply convoys frequently use American money to bribe Taliban fighters to stand back.
Over the last dozen years, the U.S. Army has spent a lot of time and money figuring out how to use digital radio technology to lift the fog of war.
Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways.
It is still the institutions that train the doctors, and for now despite the implementation of Obamacare, specialists win the money war.
History is replete with examples of the inevitable failure of paper money systems, from our own founding days, to inter-war Germany, to the monetary crisis of 1970s Latin America.
Councillor Mark Howell said it would be "completely wrong and a terrible use of public money" to enter a bidding war.
War is a business in which banks earn a lot of money.
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The men were embarrassed by the public fawning over them as heroes, but they also raised a lot of money at a crucial time in the war.
Mr Ely has since turned the chunk of statue into a piece of war relic art he hopes to sell to raise money for military charities and groups, including Birmingham's Royal Centre for Defence Medicine which treats wounded soldiers.
The framers, having just experienced the horrors of the Continental currency (which had been used to finance the War of Independence) opted to limit federal monetary powers to coining money, which for legal tender purposes they defined as gold and silver.
Number five, as we are ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I want to take some of the money that we save and put it to work doing some nation-building here at home.
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