The Denver Post's libertarian/conservative editorial-page editor, Vincent Carroll, spotlighted the "bleak" budget situation in a recent column.
"Most of the long-term rise in health care spending is associated with the use of new medical technologies," the budget office said in a recent report.
The White House finally adopted the idea in its 2012 budget, and Congress, in a recent agreement to extend payroll-tax cuts and unemployment insurance, agreed to fund a version of it.
Peter R. Orszag, then a special assistant to the president for economic policy and later Mr. Obama's budget director, said in a recent interview that Ms. Yellen did well at both the council and at the Fed.
The Chicago Teachers Union also took the proposed budget to task in a recent analysis, decrying it for its lack of transparency, aggressive charter school expansion and lack of input from community members.
"This is a tough, difficult budget," Mr. Helgerson said in a recent interview.
In an interview with Britain's Sky News, he noted that "conditions have deteriorated," and said, "So the question is, what do you do?" Asked if Osborne had wasted an opportunity in a recent budget speech in which he reaffirmed his commitment to austerity, Blanchard replied, "Well, 'waste' is too strong, but they surely could have done more, yes".
Yet faced with the liberalisation of their profession in a recent budget, Italy's lawyers somehow managed to hang on to their perks was it because so many politicians are lawyers?Instead of imposing reforms, the fag-end of a government under Silvio Berlusconi has relied excessively on tax rises.
Labour councillor Graham Turner, cabinet member for resources, said that in a recent budget consultation 69% of people responding felt that changing the policy "was a good or OK idea".
The Republican House leadership, often at odds with its restive caucus, floated a plan on Monday that would tie the debt limit increase to restoring a cut in pensions for working-age military retirees that was enacted as a money-saving measure in a recent budget.
