We also need a fund that can say 'no'.
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There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
We need to stop spending money we don't have.
We can't afford not to fully fund education.
Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
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