The deficit simply wouldn't allow the continuation of unquestioning spending rises.
"You would have a continuation of deficit spending and borrowing, further deterioration of our bond ratings, and the image that we convey to businesses that might want to come here as that of instability," Mr. Cullerton said grimly.
The connection between the economic devastation of the American people aggravated by the decrease in public spending and continuation of high military spending, exposes the priorities of an imperialist state versus its citizens.
For the meantime, the narrow victory for the governing coalition seemed to pave the way for a continuation of the heavy spending that for a decade has kept Japan's stagnant economy barely afloat.
What Obama proposes is for the most part a continuation of current tax and spending policy, except for a rise in taxes on the over-250K crowd and some relatively modest spending cuts relative to current policy.
Cable insists that his overall plan would be more effective than a continuation of Brown's large government spending increases, which are difficult to sustain with a recession looming.
(Because Congress never passed the 2013 budget and the government is operating on a continuation of last year's budget, actual spending on ITER this year is roughly $120 million).
As the Health Foundation observed last week, continuation of these trends is impossible: health spending must rise, funded if necessary by raising the standard rate of income tax.
Plus, if investors and consumers fear such a scenario, they will not start spending, making a continuation of the slump likely.
The continuation of the ring-fence for school spending matches a Tory promise to protect NHS funding and will put further pressure on unprotected areas of government spending, such as local government and the police, which will be expected to bear the burden of Whitehall cuts.
