It is slowing (or even reversing) population growth, reshaping families, reshuffling consumer markets, force feeding the demand for health care, weighing on public budgets, depressing household savings, accelerating international migration, and revolutionizing the culture".
This automatically raises the budget deficit by depressing revenue and leading to more spending on unemployment insurance and means-tested programs like Medicaid — the CBO doesn't offer a simple ratio on this, but a survey of their estimates suggests that we're probably looking at $300 billion or more in automatic stabilizers here.
One leading academic, who did not wish to be named, said the budget was "very depressing" for scientists and engineers working in the public-funded sector in Ireland.
A catchy name for one of the lamest and most depressing of the many, many budget battles that Obama and the "Rethuglicans," as HuffPo readers like to call them, have engaged in over the last four years.
Q: Shrinking IT budgets would mean a depressing future for engineers, unless there's some new growth area to soak up the talent.
The Myefo revised this down to -2% and now the budget takes an even more depressing view and has it falling by 5.5%.
We checked into the Quality Inn, the most depressing, yellow-fluorescent-lit kind of downtown budget motel, a few blocks from the Greyhound terminal.
For me, it was about taking something that didn't feel like it had much scope, just another depressing gang film shot on a low-budget in London, and trying to make it epic".
The 1981 budget contained more spending cuts, further depressing demand, in the teeth of the recession.This, more than anything, saw the birth of her reputation for ruthless decisiveness.
The 1981 budget contained more spending cuts, further depressing demand, in the teeth of the recession; 364 economists condemned her policies in a letter to the Times.This, more than anything, saw the birth of her reputation for ruthless decisiveness.
