Sentences with phrase «thought of balancing a budget»

Do you panic at the thought of balancing a budget?

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There is good reason to think the Bank of Canada governor had reservations about former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with balancing the budget.

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

Many of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.

«Being of Irish heritage, I know that what he must be thinking is that there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and over St. Patrick's Day I'm sure he'll search out a leprechaun to lead him to that pot of gold so that he can balance the budget,» Flaherty said.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have called this year's provincial budget a «triple B» effort (a «boring balanced budget»), but The Vancouver Board of Trade thinks today's budget deserved a B +.

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I think we will get some version of the so - called penny plan to reduce spending as well (penny plan = hold flat nominal discretionary spending, or reduce it or 1 % each year until the budget is balanced).

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

I thought balancing the budget was good, then Dubya decided the best thing for the USA is to completely destroy our financial credibilty (and murder lots of people).

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

«We've always said that the Budget moves have to be balanced and fair and we're all really proud of taking Britain's poorest workers out of tax altogether and we have to always have a balancing act on this and I think, frankly, most of the party understands that and should be very proud of what we've achieved amongst a tough economic backdrop.

I think we have to accept the reality that the structure of the finances are broken and that just balancing the budget on bubble gum and duct tape isn't going to work anymore.»

«But I also think some of these things are issues you have to look at from the perspective of good government, you know, are we keeping with our responsibilities in order to balance a budget for the city?»

I think that the balance of powers in the budget process needs to be changed back to something like that and I believe that the constitutional amendments proposed in A4630 would do a decent job in that regard.

At the center of the debate is whether the deficit is really $ 62 million or $ 80 million, except in Meyers» case, as he believes the deficit to actually be more than $ 80 million, and voted against the bond because he does not think his colleagues are serious about balancing the budget.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

«I really think the problem is the Chancellor George Osborne, who balances a budget on the basis of cutting PIPs then I listened to the budget on Wednesday and it was very clear to me that was what he intended to do.

So when we were thinking about the year's major breakouts in terms of direction, we tried to strike a balance between those who we can see moving on to $ 200m budget spectaculars and those whose next modestly - priced, heartfelt piece of personal expression we can't wait to see — essentially, we've tried to mix in industry breakthroughs with neophyte arthouse filmmakers and even a few better known names who have seen a quantum level leap in terms of their profile in 2014.

A. All presidents have to work successfully with boards of trustees, balance budgets, develop senior leadership teams, and think about articulating a vision.

Collaborating with ones partner Many of the leaders Groysberg and Abrahams interviewed said how much they valued their partners emotional intelligence ~ task focus ~ big - picture thinking ~ detail orientation in short ~ whatever cognitive or behavioral skills balanced out their own tendencies Partners can help them keep their eyes on what matters ~ budget their time and energy ~ live healthfully ~ and make deliberate choices sometimes tough choices about work ~ travel ~ household management ~ and community involvement.

In the spring of 2011, when this survey was administered, no one thought it would be easy for school districts to balance their budgets.

Given that school districts largely do not have to face the vagaries of «selling» their services to fickle consumers, one might think that balancing the budget would be fairly straightforward.

When the budget is this far out of balance on a net present value basis, every sane proposal sounds insane to those who think the past should continue.

Therefore, I don't think the question is about striking the right balance between these two elements, but rather to have as much of each element as possible in the budget of our financial resources.

In a sense, what Willis has done is manage to make the same mistake as the people who think that the Earth is in «radiative balance» and try to work out a tedious budget of everything going in and out.

I can think of a number of pieces of B.C legislation that came into force on April 1st: for example the Balanced Budget and Ministerial Accountability Act, S.B.C. 2001, c. 28 (April 1, 2002), the Coastal Ferry Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 14 (April 1, 2003) and the Museum Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 12 (April 1, 2003).

I think a lot of British Columbians who are undecided about Kinder Morgan Inc.'s pipeline expansion megaproject, and even a few who wholeheartedly support it, will be annoyed by the suggestion they have a role they must play in balancing Alberta's budget.

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