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Their stories range from a mirthful account by a Bristol woman about her shiftless next-door neighbor whose overflowing drain gutters flooded her property, to a somber story by a man from South Wales whose son's leg was amputated in a fearful childhood accident.
The biggest problems we face are brain drain, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of money (or perhaps, lack of money, lack of money, and lack of money).
That was not counting the inevitable "business delegation" composed of representatives of government-owned financial institutions and companies, the Manila Times added, pointing out that "every single presidential aide or factotum gets $2,000 in allowance for a trip," meaning "$200,000 going down the drain for allowances alone," on top of which there were the air fares, hotel bills, rented cars and communications equipment, phone bills, "etcetera."
States like Kentucky where poverty declined slightly suffered cuts because other large states had significant increases in poverty and will drain additional federal money from the Legal Services fund, Hamon said.
Assuming no other changes, these programs would constitute a substantial drain on the earnings of our future workers.