Throughout the recent budget deficit dialogue, there is one issue that needs to remain at the top of the agenda -- health care spending.
A proposed rollback of agricultural subsidies also gained traction early in the 2011 deficit reduction dialogue, with lawmakers and the White House eying between $20 billion and $30 billion in cuts.
Rouhani's re-election presents a tremendous opportunity on a global scale to double down on dialogue and reduce the diplomacy deficit.
Such deficits in that dialogue may be an inevitable part of real democracies, and disobedience undertaken to correct those deficits may be said to reflect, to varying degrees, dissenters' sensitivity to democratic ideals.
Dear Mr. President, Wall St., media, Republicans and some Democrats have succumbed to lavishly-funded efforts by the likes of Wall St. billionaire Peter Peterson to refocus political dialogue away from jobs onto deficits.
This study's results may guide intersectoral dialogue on topics such as deficits in knowledge, patient-centered practice, professional morality and authenticity.
Mr. Norquist's pledge has been a huge obstacle to honest dialogue in Washington, and beyond that to real deficit reduction.
He tried "reasonable dialogue" on health care reform, on the budget deficit, on the Bush-era tax cuts, on military detention and on terrorism trials.
Through his donations, Peterson has helped push the political dialogue away from jobs and economic growth and toward deficit reduction and austerity.
Italy's populist government promised it won't let its budget deficit widen further than currently planned and called for dialogue with the European Union to address their differences.
And second, we suggest a "hermeneutic-dialectic" approach, which emphasizes the role of dialogue between experts and publics for achieving new and mutually agreed upon understandings, as one possible alternative to public deficit models.
