Sentences with phrase «runaway spending in»

«Nationally, I am heartened that Americans returned Republicans to the majority in hopes of providing a check on runaway spending in Washington and getting the economy back on track toward growth and job creation.

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A crucial plank in fiscal reform is slowing runaway spending on entitlements, chiefly Social Security and Medicare.

In the last few years we've had a housing bubble, a credit bubble, runaway government spending, soaring gas prices, a global recession, high unemployment, the risk of a U.S. debt default, a fiscal crisis in Europe, and the threat of severe inflatioIn the last few years we've had a housing bubble, a credit bubble, runaway government spending, soaring gas prices, a global recession, high unemployment, the risk of a U.S. debt default, a fiscal crisis in Europe, and the threat of severe inflatioin Europe, and the threat of severe inflation.

But her demeanor in the TV special definitely adds to the bizarre story and prompted Joe and I to Google conspiracy theories about her actually being a voluntary runaway which are totally bogus I'm sure but a good way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon (lol).

We only spent three days there, but our stay at Jamaica's FDR Resort & Spa, in Runaway Bay, Jamaica, is one of our most memorable.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

Tell them we have a decent chance that spending cuts — not tax hikes — will balance our budget and there's a chance for a property tax cap that reigns in runaway State mandates.

«A Republican governor is going to be very important as a check and balance on runaway taxes and spending and anti-business policies in City Hall,» he said.

But he keeps trying to lower expectations, arguing that there is little he can do about runaway political spending as long as the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is in force, and blaming the Republicans in the Legislature for doing nothing to reform its own scandalous behavior.

State spending on homeless and runaway youth was also reduced in the past several budgets.

After his action - comedy vehicle Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was poised to team with Ivan Reitman for the latter's summer 2001 sci - fi comedy Evolution.Still, Jones retired as 7 - Up's pitch man in early 2002, and would spend the 2000's nurturing his film and TV career, appearing in Runaway Jury and Drumline, as well as TV shows, like The Adventures of Chico and Guapo and Rules of Engagement.

After making his movie debut in director Hal Ashby's final film 8 Million Ways to Die (1985), Lister spent the rest of the 1980s working primarily in A and B movies heavy on action, including Runaway Train (1985), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice (1987).

In fact, we spend most of our time with the parents as they stumble around trying to figure out what to do and how to make sense of the changing world — a scene where they go to a meeting of parents of runaway children and learn to smoke marijuana is priceless.

After voting against the 2015 budget, Rep. Barton said, «This bill does not address in, any substantial way, runaway government spending.

That was the reason for (a) the home reno tax credit, (b) $ 17 billion in stimulus spending in eight months, (c) a $ 56 billion runaway deficit and (d) a central bank rate of 0.25 % leading to mortgages at 2 % and young couples borrowing their brains out.

But when Maezawa chose the same auction week in May 2016 to spend hefty sums on a number of other top lots as well — $ 13.9 million on a Christopher Wool, $ 9.7 million on Richard Prince's Runaway Nurse, $ 6.9 million on Jeff Koons's Lobster — he worked the elder collector class into a frenzy.

Labor is now flagging more delays in these investments to prop up its wasteful and reckless spending, its desperate sandbagging of marginal seats and its runaway debt.

She has also spent time volunteering and working with victims of domestic violence, children in the foster care system, and runaways.