As president he has presided over a time of rising inflation and unemployment, but has pumped oil revenues into the budget, sustaining a semblance of growth and buying good will among civil servants, the military and the retired.
However, following the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent economic embargo, public health budget sustained a serious decline by 90% [ 13].
We haven't even mentioned the $253-billion Pentagon budget, which sustains the largest and most successful planned economy in the world.
Republicans sense a fresh opening surrounding Mr. Obama, after painful budget talks, sustained high unemployment and the lowering of the nation's credit rating.
Damascus is no longer paying the salaries of civil servants living in the liberated zones and there is no budget to sustain basic public services.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppé, himself once seen as a potential president, came out last week for a "real European federation," with a common economic government and a bigger central budget to sustain the common currency.
The Relevancy Mr. McCain hopes to appeal to working-class voters with broader arguments concerning his pledge to control spending, balance the budget and sustain the growth of exports.
No one in office can produce a coherent account of why this money is needed: the ministry's budget is sustained by the greed of contractors and nostalgia for imperium long passed.
In the words of the historian John Morton Blum, Mr. Morgenthau said he believed recovery "depended on the willingness of business to increase investments, and this in turn was a function of business confidence," adding, "In his view only a balanced budget could sustain that confidence".
