But that's the price you pay for access to a publicly financed safety net.
Yet for the vast majority of families on assistance in New York, benefits will continue through the state and locally financed Safety Net Assistance program.
By "traditional" he means valuing social cohesion, a publicly financed safety net of some sort and gender equality.
The government also plans to set aside up to 30 percent of the profits of state-owned businesses to finance safety-net programs, including social security and health care.
A default would make it tough for the Treasury to make good on coming interest payments and other obligations, including paying scores of government employees and financing critical safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Today our industrial democracy, which once invested in the future and financed the safety net, has given way to a consumer democracy in which all the feedback signals -- the media, the market and politics -- steer behavior toward immediate gratification.
These IGAs include irrigation schemes, micro-finance credit, safety net, cattle rearing, poultry production and bee keeping.
Meanwhile, those who worried about the fact that this brave new world of finance lacked a safety net were dismissed as hopelessly old-fashioned.
From western governments Poland has received just $1 billion for this purpose, after much haggling among the lenders.The second kind of support needed will be money to help finance a social safety net for the region.
She was recently a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, founded by Peter G. Peterson, who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two decades warning about the horrors of the federal government's finances, particularly safety nets like Social Security and Medicare.
Some of this finances a real safety net for the poor, but much of it bypasses them.
