True, while these solutions may make sense from a budgetary standpoint, critics worry that increasing pretrial releases will present a threat to public safety, especially since judges are typically left to make bail decisions based simply on a gut feeling.
Even so, the first response of the "austerians" to the Italian vote has been to insist that whoever succeeds Mr Monti must keep strict budgetary discipline.Certainly, worries about financial contagion persist.
The OECD's general secretary, Angel Gurria, said: "It is worrying that budgetary duress [in] our member countries have led to a second successive fall in total aid, but I take heart from the fact that, in spite of the crisis, nine countries still managed to increase their aid".
Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2010 and 2011, said the time and budgetary pressures were a constant worry.
Nearly 90% of this is in rich countries, where it can easily be slipped into budgetary packages to stimulate demand.The worry about such subsidies is that they could cause production to switch from more efficient plants (eg, in central and eastern Europe) to less efficient ones in rich countries with deep pockets (eg, in western Europe).
In a string of over-optimistic budgetary forecasts, he brushed aside worries about a deteriorating fiscal position as public spending surged at his behest.Alistair Darling, who took over at the Treasury when Mr Brown became prime minister in June 2007, must feel like a street-cleaner employed to clear up after the cavalry has gone by.
And then there are the uniformed military services: the Navy, Air Force, and Army, all worried about the budgetary future, are desperately interested in securing a large slice of the cyberpie.
Worried about the long-term budgetary consequences and its potential for leaving the Iranian economy vulnerable to a US blockade, the government in June imposed rationing.
But some of the same economists who admonished Obama for embracing deficit concerns now worry that Democrats' focus on the budgetary impact of the tax cuts could undermine the party's political viability in the 2018 midterm elections ― as well as its policy agenda, should it regain power.
And many county leaders are beginning to worry that the Senate stalemate will hurt their budgetary bottom lines.
What worries me is that Daniels's projection was the budgetary equivalent of the Rumsfeld Pentagon's failure to commit enough troops for the occupation.
