Sentences with phrase «making draconian cuts»

The states face a combined shortfall of $ 125 billion, and to help balance their budgets, some are making draconian cuts in public education and employees, including, of course, teachers.

After the president had agreed to raise taxes, rather than make the draconian cuts needed to adhere to the law, it became clear he'd been saying, «Don't nuke Texas,» when most of us thought he'd said, «No new taxes.»

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How do they make those not - so - draconian cuts?

Unsurprisingly, support for the Tories has diminished as they have made it clear — with Cameron's warning of «an age of austerity» and George Osborne's draconian cuts proposals — that they will ruthlessly carry out capitalism's demands for the working class to pay for the economic crisis.

«As communities in New York recover from Hurricane Irene, will Representative Chris Gibson let his Republican Leadership hold disaster relief funding until draconian cuts are made to things like Medicare and education?»

Instead, climate reality and natural climatic forces intruded - real world temperatures since 1988 resemble the cyan temperature curve of «draconian» emission cuts that Hansen's testimony implied would necessarily make global warming safe by end of 2014.