Massachusetts, New York and Ohio are still in the fight, with federal, state and local officials using a combination of techniques, including tree removals, insecticide injections, public education and surveillance.
Spanish politicians have dithered about cleaning up the country's banks, for fear that doing so would demand an injection of public funds which, in turn, would worsen the government's finances.Private debt, public painThis fiscal focus gets things exactly backwards.
When Japan finally made its first injection of public funds, putting some $6.5 billion in 1995 into nonbanking real estate lenders, the effort stirred public outrage, including sit-ins in Parliament by opposition lawmakers.
"The eco-clique are lobbying for a huge injection of public funds into geoengineering research.
"Over the short term, the injection of public funds will be effective," said Kim Dae Shik, an economics professor at Chung Ang University.
A fresh injection of public funds does not look far away.
Without that huge injection of public cash the east would still be a mess.
The banking system, almost bust in 2001, has been restructured with a huge injection of public funds.
Its directors adopted a high-risk strategy of brinkmanship, constantly claiming that the company would be unable to meet its commitments without an extra injection of public funds.
Isn't this really just a round-about way of bailing out the banks?" It is an open secret here that banks need another injection of public money.
