In 2011, local governments will spend well over six hundred billion, while the federal government is spending less than forty billion.
Consumer spending not only pulled the economy out of recession but continued to do the heavy lifting, as businesses remained reluctant to spend until well into the recovery.
"And it's also about what's good for business - there's evidence to show that it increases production, people are happier and people go out and spend as well, " he said.
"While we have increased state funding in each of the past two years, we must also be honest that it is not just about how much you spend, but how well you spend it, " said Justin Barra, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Education.
No doubt Armstrong could well spend a bit more time doing that also.
The West has long sought leaders, such as Mr Kagame, who can be relied on to spend aid money well.
Long unpopular with the right as well as the left, Mr Holder may well spend the coming year even more embattled than usual.
The once high-profile boss of WorldCom could well spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction last month on fraud charges.
Now that Japanese companies are making more money, they will spend more as well, especially on the sorts of information technologies that have been so popular in America.
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The decrease is primarily attributable to the continuing effects of actions taken in conjunction with Clearwire's cost cutting initiatives in 2011 including lower employee-related expenses resulting from headcount reductions and outsourcing of the customer care function, reduced marketing spend, as well as decreased selling commission expense associated with our no-contract product offering which was launched at the beginning of 2012.
We spend a lot of time -- well, we try to spend a lot of time together as a family.
It might serve Mr. Porter well to spend some time around billionaires before writing his next column on them.
All parties would do well to spend some time pondering what those people who think of themselves as "Northern Irish" want.
In the high performance-driving classes, drivers work on autocross, skid pad control and threshold braking, as well as spend lap time on the racetrack.
He offered a sobering reminder to a room full of professionals who spend their time making well-reasoned arguments about energy efficiency and complain about the pace of change.
Along the way the students will visit various science organisations such as the Leigh Marine Centre, Liggins Institute, DairyNZ, Massey University as well as spend the afternoon with Genesis Energy (principal sponsor) where they will be given a special tour of their 'plant' at Tokaanu.
Sometimes it is only fishermen who are well prepared to spend several hours alone on the island which offers little shelter.
To be clear, if governments had not continued to spend, our recession might well have become something much worse, a 1930s-style depression.
She just wants to make sure that she can spend time focused on being well and not worrying about her medical bills.
"If we're listening to the governors, then the money that we spend is going to be well spent, and it means that it's going to get working faster and the people in your states are going to experience prosperity sooner, " he said.
This spend-centric strategy of targeting well-off customers helped the company steer clear of the financial crisis in 2008.
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Luquire said clients have been willing to spend on integrated marketing , as well as on strategic branding.
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Moreover, large farmers are often well-connected and spend more time lobbying for special favours than doing the hard work.
Which brings us to, well, who would spend such money and why?
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Sure, it makes sense that the less well-off will spend whatever they are given, but unfortunately, not on the things to spur a hiring binge.
The replacement ratio needs to be higher than average for the least well paid, who spend proportionately more on essentials such as food, fuel and shelter.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen was taking her birthday weekend off to spend it with her family as well as to enjoy her favourite pastime - horseracing.
Mr Balls admitted Labour had made mistakes with the economy - particularly on eastern European immigration and bank regulation - and "didn't spend every pound of public money well".
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And we need to curb that in so that people really are much more living within their means and that they have a healthy amount of saving, as well as money to spend.
They said, if our projection is wrong, well, then you should spend federal dollars.
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