We want a Europe that is strong and competitive, a Europe where we plan our budgets sensibly, and where we do not pile up more and more debt.
And then everyone can still go about their budget making sensibly, avoid the sequester cuts (which wind out over the course of many months), and the best thing of all is that in an "over the cliff" environment, all of Pete Peterson's hellhounds lose most of their leverage, and ushering those people to the other side of the bridges that lead into DC would be a proud moment for our nation.
At the other end of the scale, some countries, including several of Tanzania's neighbours, need to end their civil wars before they can rebuild, let alone reform, their health-care systems.Despite these caveats, most governments could save many more lives by spending their health budgets more sensibly.
Trump's budget proposal this year, sensibly ignored by Congress, would have cut Medicaid by $306 billion over 10 years, food stamps by $214 billion, nutritional help for mothers and children, and heating assistance for the poor, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
OK, so you've spent the summer sensibly budgeting, working and resisting the endless offers of credit and special deals that seem to arrive as soon as companies hear the word student.
I could, if I wanted to, stage a long debate over whether I am sensibly budgeting money or if I could create more savings, but I'm not actually allowed to dodge my committments.
We will lose our rebate (worth £4.5bn a year on average) at the end of 2020 because the EU has, sensibly, planned its 2021-27 budget without us in mind.
It said the move would "provide greater assurance that costs have been attributed correctly and sensibly to the individual budgets, and that the 5% target was being achieved".
Even so, Mr. Giuliani has sensibly asked city agencies for possible budget cuts for the next year.
Elijah Moshinsky, an old Verdi pro, has devised an intelligent and lucid staging, sensibly framed by Russell Craig's low-budget designs, that avoids directorial funny business without becoming deathly dull.
