"I said, 'I just can't foresee spending this much money,"' she said.
Ingels was at a stage when an ambitious architect might foresee spending a decade travelling the world, and working at three or four firms, before considering self-employment.
Some of the most influential figures in Parliament have already signaled that they would reject a budget that foresees spending less on Europe in the years ahead.
It foresees annual spending of roughly $11 billion in 2012 and 2013, followed by $7 billion in 2014, $5 billion in 2015 and $1 billion in 2016.
Mr. Stallings also foresees business spending picking up sooner, and he prefers potential beneficiaries of the trend that have a global reach.
The retirement program's trustees do foresee rising spending as the population ages, with total payments rising from 5.1 percent of G.D.P. now to 6.2 percent in 2035, at which point they stabilize.
He foresees defense spending actually going up in real terms -- just by a somewhat lesser amount due to his projected cuts.
News reports in Argentina suggested that the cuts could total about $4 billion, nearly 10percentt of the total spending foreseen in the country's draft 2002 budget bill.
Commercial interests gleefully exploited the notion of self-expression through spending, foreseeing that the path to self-knowledge — the necessary prerequisite of self-expression — must mean false starts and wrong investments by customers, which would prove profitable to business.
On Wednesday I gathered the first round of raw ingredients: assorted lettuces and fruits from Grace's Marketplace, as well as fresh fettucine, although not without a twinge of guilt; in an ideal world, the fettucine would have been homemade spatzle, but I foresaw precious moments spent pushing dough through a colander.
