No economic or budget imperative requires that it be cut, now or in the reasonably foreseeable future.
"People in the government have different views about the size of the state sector - it is driven by a budget imperative and we have to stick with it," he said.
Interest payments on the government's stock of debt already consume a quarter of the budget, making a reduction imperative, but hard and getting harder.
The surge in refunds is already contributing to a new $285 million shortfall in the current year's budget, thus making it imperative, city officials say, to cut programs and raise taxes even earlier than anticipated.
"When I saw the thing pieced together, I thought, 'Well, I'm in a different film.' " He pitched his portrayal of Daffy to the character in the book, he says, not the eventual celluloid version, skewed by big-budget demands and studio imperatives.
The boost was intended to address what experts in both parties said was the degraded state of the military's hardware after sixteen years of war and half a decade of tight budgets, in which the imperatives of fighting have allowed programs in "training and readiness" to be neglected.
As many developed countries begin to cut aid budgets, it is imperative that African-led innovation is applied to address African health needs.
"While I understand that Highland Council has to work within tight financial budgets, it is imperative that the potential effects on the education of the children in these areas is paramount and must be considered with great care".
So as Senate Democrats consider their role in the upcoming Budget fight, here are the imperatives.
Maintaining a budget surplus is a political imperative in Australia, rather than economic.
