Paul Ryan, acting as guardian-in-chief of fiscal responsibility and strict budgetary control, in reality voted for off-budget wars and continued fattening of the already bloated defense budget.
Mr. Saurack was chief of the fiscal investigations unit of the Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities.
In collaboration with the lijia community chiefs of his fiscal jurisdiction, he saw to it that tax grains were collected and then delivered, in accordance with complicated instructions; some went to local storage vaults under control of the district magistrate and some to military units, which, by means of the Grand Canal, annually transported more than three million piculs northward to Beijing.
"The mandate is to get back to making commercial pictures with a degree of fiscal responsibility," Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, said in a telephone interview.
The opposition agrees in principle, but there are practical difficulties.In two televised election debates, Paul Martin, Canada's prime minister, accused his chief opponent, Stephen Harper, the Conservative leader, of fiscal irresponsibility.
Troubles Began in 1998 The department's latest troubles date to 1998, when Police Chief William Hill retired abruptly after accusations of fiscal and personnel mismanagement, and the state asked the county prosecutor at the time, Lee Solomon, to monitor the force.
Some of his cabinet appointments reflect this change of focus: the new finance minister, Fukushiro Nukaga, and the new chief cabinet secretary, Kaoru Yosano, are supporters of fiscal restructuring and have better relations with the bureaucracy than their predecessors.
"The comptroller is the chief fiscal officer, the chief investment officer, and chief auditor of the State of New York.
But my generation isn't just a bunch of fiscal slouches, according to Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at the consumer financial services company Bankrate.com.com
"We're almost there in terms of fiscal adjustment," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the I.M.F. who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"Kuczynski especially was seen by the markets as the biggest guarantor of fiscal stability," said Rafael de la Fuente, chief Latin economist for BNP Paribas in New York.
