In five years the two men wiped out Quebec's $4 billion annual budget deficit, balancing the budget last year.
In the 1994 campaign, they coalesced around ridding the country of a ballooning deficit, balancing the budget and ending wasteful spending.
And, because our plan is built on solid economic foundations with a tough approach to the deficit – balancing the books in the next parliament with the debt falling and a surplus on the current budget – we will show where the money comes from for all our policies.
Participants were asked whether they considered the household's economic situation in the preceding year to have been always in deficit, occasionally deficit, balanced or surplus.
There is an unwillingness call it a numbness when it comes to contemplating budget deficits, balance of payments deficits, Social Security and Medicare deficits.
California voters may provide insight into the thinking of voters across the fruited plain in how they vote on the various propositions to deal with deficits, balanced budgets, and the like.
They do argue, however, that extra capital spending need not affect the aim of bringing the current structural deficit into balance by the end of the parliament.
He also denied that he was allowing his fiscal discipline to slip since he had given himself an extra year, to 2019-20, to bring the deficit into balance.
Total foreign trade has increased since the 1990s, but exports have not kept pace with imports, resulting in a persistent deficit in balance of payments.
Osborne signalled that the government's "formal mandate" was to bring the structural current deficit into balance in the final year of the five-year forecast period, which is 2015-16.
