Sri Lanka faces this month a meeting in Paris of aid donors, who may question whether they ought to be financing indirectly the prosecution of its war against the Tigers.Both sides may also be feeling war fatigue.
And I might even be able to contribute to the future shape and funding of care services by giving my views in the online questionnaire about how social care ought to be provided and financed, including, for example, through taxation, insurance or having to pay directly when help is needed.
The proceeds from a gasoline tax ought to be used to finance cuts in other taxes this, surely, is the way to present them to a sceptical electorate.Judging by the debate going on in Washington, a policy of this kind is a distant prospect.
Critics of earmarks contend that even the most legitimate projects ought not be financed through a process that rewards influence and sidesteps normal procedures.
"It's a marriage agreement that governs those aspects of a relationship that ought to be discussed -- finances, division of labor, proper treatment of one another, what happens if one gets sick and dies," said Michael Broyde, an Orthodox rabbi and a professor of law at Emory University in Atlanta.
He did think, though, that the Treasury had something of an "identity crisis" because it thinks it ought to be a narrow finance ministry, but when an economics ministry was set up to compete with it in the 1960s it worked to limit and to destroy it.
"This bill isn't remotely perfect, but I think it gets us two-thirds of the way to where we ought to be," said Douglas Elliott, a Brookings Institution finance expert.
Dr. Hodes said he hopes "The Alzheimer's Project" "will allow people to make a better judgment of how they think research ought to be supported," whether through government financing (although the National Institutes of Health doesn't lobby) or by participating in clinical research as a human subject.
BURTON: But the president, from what I read, the president has not changed his position on whether or not campaign finance ought to be reformed.
