"We live on an extreme budget; each month is to the penny," she added.
There certainly was when the city's former mayor, Art Agnos, did so in 1988, during another extreme budget crisis.
Mr. Ryan became well known last year as the face of the most extreme budget plan passed by a house of Congress in modern times.
Christie's boisterous anti-union rhetoric and extreme budget-cutting, among other things, gave rise to a Christie boomlet in the early stages of this presidential campaign season.
I mean, yay Paul Ryan? Fond of making extreme budget cuts for the needy while sparing corporations, which is a good thing in the eyes of the GOP.
That set off a new round of hand-wringing concern that states with extreme budget shortfalls — like California, Illinois and New Jersey — might be atop a list of the next "sovereigns" that won't be able to keep up with debt payments.
But as he told me this week, without additional federal help, many states will have no choice but to impose extreme budget cuts, or raise taxes, or — most likely — do both.
His vociferous opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency EPAandand his support of extreme budget cuts could spell trouble for Nasa's less prominent programs, such as its own climate research and sophisticated supercomputers.
In Oregon, which is one of many states facing an extreme budget crisis, teachers have agreed to work two weeks without pay, thus averting plans to shorten the school year by nearly five weeks.
Even more alarming than the news that our economy shed almost 32,000 jobs in December is the likely impact that extreme budget cuts would have on the communities where the labour market is already at its weakest, like my electorate of Rankin to the south of Brisbane.
