Ms. Baumhoff, a state worker, worries about California's immense budget deficit -- and thus her job.
One answer is that the NSA has enjoyed almost limitless political support and an immense budget: the data centre it is building in Utah alone costs $1.5 billion.
But the Port Authority board is jointly controlled by Mr. Christie and New York's governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, and both states are facing immense budget challenges.
Each has been accused of exploiting his virtually unbridled control over the immense budget for the largest local jail east of the Mississippi.
Mr. Hartling was a shrewd, paternal and politically gifted administrator, not blessed with an immense budget, who spent $500 million in 1980 on the refugee office's work.
The United States has a negative personal-savings rate; an immense budget shortfall, which will expand as the baby boomers retire; a trade deficit greater than Russia's gross domestic product.
In addition to the immense budget challenges, Mr. Hagel faces a steep learning curve in mastering myriad foreign policy challenges facing the Obama administration, including deciding whether to increase aid to the Syrian opposition and confronting Iran over its nuclear program.
Still, without a jobs revival to boost consumer spending and tax revenues — and with the states facing immense budget shortfalls — the economy is unlikely to do anything other than limp along, at best, once the effects of the stimulus fade this year.
Its subject is Napoleon, the film Kubrick researched for two years after 2001: A Space Odyssey but had to abandon in 1970 when the Hollywood studios withdrew in view of the immense budget and the appearance of Bondarchuk's Waterloo, which Kubrick considered "a silly film".
Democrats respond that the Republicans were happy to spend the division's surplus income as part of New Jersey's general fund when their party controlled the state in recent years, and insist that the extra money was already earmarked to help the state deal with its immense budget deficits.
