The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud that is very much at the root of the high tax problem. What he is trying to do is to make one business official accountable for a district's money and to treat budgets as if it were their own. The only remedy now is for communities to vote down a school budget, and that ultimately hurts the children. Seventy percent of our tax bill is made up of school district costs, and those rising costs are crippling those who live here and sending them to more affordable pastures. Those who are elected would now be accountable at the end of their term.
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It should be balanced without reducing K-12 classroom funding and without crippling our universities, community colleges and state agencies.
I consider him to be one of the 21st-century prophets, along with people like Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of bringing real medical relief to the world's poor. We seek to model Jesus in Matthew 115, where he said, 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk.' We seek to help those afflicted with crippling diseases, like Rick Warren is doing with his AIDS project. The church must act.
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Crippling low incomes, lack of access to health care and low education prospects all plague the Chinese countryside.
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
This outrageous action is crippling border security in Texas, ... We demand that these agents be returned to Texas immediately.
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.
As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.
Im asking people to boycott KFC until the company demands that its suppliers stop crippling chickens and scalding them alive. No animals should have to suffer this way, whether theyre cats or dogs or chickens.
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
You're finally getting some job growth after a crippling nasty recession ... and more jobs mean people have more to spend. If you had to tighten your belt for a couple of years and it's Christmas, then maybe it's time to say maybe the job will be around next year and let's go spend some money.
The overall market is in great shape. No matter what's thrown at the market, it doesn't want to break down the London bombings, interest rates, Rita. Uncertainty is a crippling attitude. But companies are still growing not as fast as before but they're still growing and hiring.
The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated characternothing See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re a serious cripple who succeeded.
Contrary to the claims of proponents of the bankruptcy law changes that they would zero in on the alleged legions of 'deadbeats' who supposedly were crippling the U.S. economy ... the federal bankruptcy law changes that went into effect on Oct. 17, 2005, are doing no measurable good whatsoever.