We need more money, but we need to spend the money wisely and we need to institute reforms that raise standards and push everybody in a school -- principal, teacher, student, parent -- to pursue excellence.

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Even when government expenditures are on goods and services, public employees seldom spend the money as wisely or as prudently as someone spending their own money.

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To the extent the government does not spend or invest the money as wisely as the Obamas, the economy would be smaller and there would be fewer jobs.

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It is also an implicit statement that the government can spend that money more wisely than the person who earned it.

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We should, first and foremost, make an effort to spend wisely the money we have already allocated to Medicaid, before demanding that overburdened taxpayers fork over even more.

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Mr Ellis said the force would need to spend its money more wisely in order to make the savings over the next four years.

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Second, it turns out, when employees control the money, they spend wisely.

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If foundations give wisely, they can influence the way charities spend the rest of their money.

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