Sentences with phrase «bad at budgeting»

Maybe less if you're really that bad at budgeting and restraining yourself.

Dispelling the myth that only people who are «bad at budgeting» reach a point of needing professional debt management.

And there's the reality that people are just generally bad at budgeting and saving even when they know they have an obligation to pay.

Not exact matches

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

Eight years after the beginning of the last recession, the economy is in much worse shape than was expected — at least judging from the forecasts that the Congressional Budget Office published back in August 2007.

According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the long - run fiscal position of the federal government is not bad at all.

This deal represents budgeting at its worst — each party is giving the other its wish list with all the bells and whistles included and asking future generations to pick up the tab.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

That will be great news for the Gunners to hear this.Arsenal now badly need of a pure striker.For this at current Falcao is the best (If possible by transfer budget).

For far too long, schools have balanced their budgets at the expense of student health by selling some of the worst junk food out there, in competition with the healthier, nutritionally balanced school meal.

The second - highest - ranking Republican in the Senate, John DeFrancisco, said the budget will be «horrible» and the worst in at least seven years.

And as the state budget collapsed on Paterson's head he morphed into yet another petulant carpet chewer better at creating bad blood than being a negotiator or leader.

The coalition released a report that it maintains «lays out the corporate welfare giveaways, tax loopholes, mega-contracts, and bad lending practices that each cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars — at the time when the city is debating some of the harshest budget cuts since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s.»

A few minutes earlier at PMQs it emerged that the Prime Minister's own joke - writing department had already seen its budget badly slashed in the name of austerity.

Sadly we can't rewrite the entire budget at this stage, but we can mitigate the worse effects — and we can begin organising for the 2011 and 2012 budgets before the worst effects of this budget begin to kick in.

But consistent bad headlines since Budget 2012 have hammered the government's reputation for competence and prompted loss of seats for the coalition parties at the local elections.

Marcia White, a former top aide to ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno who rescued the Saratoga Performing Arts Center from its worst budget crisis, plans to retire at the end of 2016 after a dozen years at the helm.

Also expected to speak at the event are Rev. Valerie Faust and Assembly member Patricia Fahy who will both share the concerns of parents and teachers who fear their children are no longer being provided with the education they need to succeed and CSEA Capital Region President Kathy Garrison who will address the impact of bad budget choices on communities.

«For New York City, I think this is one of the worst budgets that it's seen in a long time,» Maria Doulis, a budget analyst at the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission, told Polbudget analyst at the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission, told PolBudget Commission, told Politico.

«To be the only state in the union without a budget sends a bad signal around the country at a time when we want to recruit people and we want to recruit business.

At the same time, Governor Cuomo's bad budget choices will mean layoffs that will be tragic for the affected people, their families and communities, and will hurt New York's economy.

Fiscal conservatives at the Citizens Budget Commission and Manhattan Institute lamented what they called bad choices and missed opportunities in the mayor's plan, notably its rising spending and failure to sock away enough money to cushion the blow when things go south, as they eventually will.

The revelations rounded off arguably the worst day in Theresa May's eight - month stint as prime minister, after a Tory rebellion forced her chancellor, Philip Hammond, to drop his plan to raise national insurance for the self - employed only a week after it was announced at the budget.

«For New York City, I think this is one of the worst budgets that it's seen in a long time,» said Maria Doulis, a budget analyst at the Citizens» Budget Commibudget analyst at the Citizens» Budget CommiBudget Commission.

At a time when painful measures in October's Strategic Defence and Security Reviewv - such as scrapping the Harrier fleet, along with service personnel and civilian job losses and other efficiency gains - are reported to fall # 1 billion short of the MOD's # 8 billion budget reduction target, a public row over savings already assumed would be bad news for the department.

The budget also sets forth the idea of modernizing the state's airports, which are consistently ranked among the worst in the country, and spending $ 450 million to build an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport that would connect to the subway and Long Island Rail Road at Mets - Willets Point Station.

The FY 2008 budget process is just revving up, but at present 2008 and beyond look almost as bad.

«The dominance of a single mission like Webb can be a bad thing,» says astrophysicist Martin Elvis, a noted critic of budget - busting space missions at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

In fact, the ACS paid lobbying firm Hicks Partners LLC at least $ 100,000 in 2005 to try to persuade congressional members, the NIH, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that a «PubChem Project» would be a bad idea, according to public lobbying disclosures, and paid an additional $ 180,000 to the Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to promote the «use of [a] commercial database.»

Of course it couldn't be at a worse time, with the federal government talking about reduced budgets and austerity.

Considering that my budget was $ 75, I'd say that's not bad at all!

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

Moody though incoherent, boldly cynical if hampered by extraordinarily poor editing (it appears as though characters are able to travel at light speed from location to location — the budget probably couldn't support transitional coverage), The Calling is so earnestly bad that I really got a kick out of it.

Granted something may come along in 2092 that be truly terrible as well, but it will still be looking up at this bad idea made worse with a big budget.

While the Warner Bros. comedy tripled its budget at the box office, it will only be remembered for being one of Sandler's worst comedies yet, providing audiences didn't immediately wipe it from their memory when they walked out of the theater.

At the end of the day, Special Forces Team X feels like a budget game gone bad.

The audio department works okay but at the end of the day, Special Forces Team X feels like a budget game gone bad.

At this time Welles invented his own unique method of low - budget independent filmmaking that set the template, for better and worse, for most of his career thereafter.

Both gentlemen have a palpable affection for the kitsch factor at work here, the energy of working on the edge with a low budget, and for the rush of seeing something so bad that it's good, but only one of them can pull off the homage.

It's extremely difficult — and expensive — to film in water, and the price of failure can be massive (see Waterworld, which went wildly over budget and torpedoed Kevin Costner's career as an A-Lister, or Cutthroat Island, which performed so badly at the box office that its production company went bankrupt).

However, Bad Moms earned $ 180 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $ 20 million, positioning it as a resounding success for STX.

Good moms go to heaven; Bad Moms get money — nearly $ 185 million at the box office, on a budget not much more than a tenth of that — and, apparently, a super fast - tracked sequel.

The visual effects are surprisingly shoddy for a film with such a big budget and the writing is laughably bad, defying logic at every turn.

The opposite holds true for this philosophical, poignant and riotously funny look at the low - budget film's resurgence and a timeless question: What is the standard of «bad,» exactly?

The idea of an evil cat being redundant, perhaps, Maria is cursed by the ability to see through the were - cat's eyes (the appearance of the creature is something of a cross between Stan Winston's creature in An American Werewolf in London and the CGI construct from Brotherhood of the Wolf, on a miniscule budget), an ability that causes her to feel pretty badly about things — not aided at all by her trouble with her idiot boyfriend.

Uncertainty over federal funding is leading many local and state officials to use worst - case scenarios to plan next year's school budgets, anticipating at least a 17 percent cut in federal aid.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Opponents of voucher programs argue that they siphon essential funding from already meager public - school budgets to other schools and at their worst are unconstitutional, as they can use taxpayer - funded vouchers to benefit religious schools.

Our research shows that while a small number of schools were able to avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.

Whether an individual state's budget will be better or worse off under the model depends on the rate at which per student funding is growing at present (information not publicly available) and how well schools are currently funded compared to the target.