Even though we spend more than any other nation on health care, we aren't healthier.
We spend more time in front of our televisions than frequenting our local libraries.
Life is becoming increasingly virtual, as we spend more and more time with our screens.
Those programs are where we spend more than 40% of all tax dollars.
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These days, we spend more time online - working with docs, email, music and occasionally even accessing social media.
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When we spend more money, we are using more, or scarcer resources.
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Nationally, we spend more on education than just about any other country.
Right now there is a paradox: We spend more than any industrialized country, but our health is fair to middling among other developed nations.
In fact, few Americans realize that we spend more out of general tax revenues to bankroll Medicare than we do out of payroll taxes.
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As we spend more and more time online, we constantly give away information about our personal preferences and spending habits for free to vendors.
Your Apple products have improved our lives in countless ways and, sadly, most days we spend more quality time with your iPhone than with our boyfriends.
We spend more per capita on health care than any other country, yet we are not even in the top twenty when it comes to life expectancy.
"In this campaign, Al Gore is proposing that we spend more of your money on a military build-up than on education, " Bradley told supporters at the University of Washington.
As we get sufficient supplies of those earlier in the queue then we spend more of our increasing incomes on those things that come a little later in it.
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They think we spend more and get less out of our foreign policy investments, when in fact we spend less and get more than in almost any other area of public endeavor.
Did the fact that we spend more than three hundred dollars a month in cell phone usage play any part in the decision of our wireless provider when we begged for a replacement?
The Commonwealth Fund, in a study authored by David Squires, compared the U.S. to other OECD countries to see whether we spend more per medical incident than our worldwide colleagues.
"We all know that when we connect to the Internet, we spend more time for surfing and reading e-mail only, so when we are spending time we spend a lot of money to pay the accounts for only using a couple of hours, " Onel de Guzman's proposal read.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We spend credit more readily than we spend cash even though credit is by far the pricier way to deploy our resources.
And as a society, we still spend more on education than we do on defense, or at least we have since about 1993.
First, we must spend more on defense, and we must do so carefully and wisely.
The faster we grew, the more we had to spend on textbooks, the more we spent on textbooks, the more capital we needed.
"We can spend more time actually talking to the patient and focusing on health care, " he says.
Americans are falling short in education, even after we spend much more than countries that beat us on testing.
We spend much more than we make and we have lots of debt.
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Meeker shows bar charts that clearly show we spend way more time on the Internet and with our mobile devices compared to TV, Print, Radio or Billboards.
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Since we still have the largest economy in the world by far, that means we spend far more on health care than any other country in the world.
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