All this is done on a three-thousand-dollar budget (half of which is earmarked for the service contract on the photocopier).
The lion's share of federal-government revenues are earmarked for debt service, salaries and pensions, and essentials such as health and education.
He pointed to a significantly lower debt-to-GDP ratio, in turn generating funds otherwise earmarked for debt servicing, but now designated to much needed social services.
Finally, the demand for better public administration has been left unaddressed; al-Sisi's celebrated US$6 billion renovation of the Suez Canal has been almost entirely funded with tax payers' money, redirecting funds originally earmarked for social services and healthcare.
A federal grand jury accused the former state superintendent of schools, Linda C. Schrenko, of conspiring to steal more than $500,000 in federal money earmarked for computer services at schools for the deaf and an honors program.
The money, he said, would be strictly earmarked for health services and would result in a 43percentt rise in health spending by 2008, to a point that would be double the level when Labor came to power in 1997.
But a review of county budget documents shows that it ended 2003 with an unspent balance of almost $51 million in fringe benefits that were budgeted for the Police Department last year, money that was collected from the police portion of the county's taxes and was specifically earmarked for police services.
In the declaration, the region's governments also called upon donor countries to strive to fulfill their commitment to provide 0.7 per cent of their Gross National Product for official development assistance, and to ensure that a larger proportion of current development assistance is earmarked for social services for children.
"Mental ill-health is a cradle to grave problem with nothing like a cradle to grave service," he said, with some funds earmarked for mental health services not being used for the right purpose.
While talking about mental health is helpful to a point, we need more: more pressure on the government to provide extra funding; more outrage when money earmarked for mental health services is diverted away from mental health services, as £800 million was last week.
