Sentence examples for long-term discipline from inspiring English sources

Can America establish long-term discipline over spending and its budget deficit?" Mr. Zoellick criticized President Obama's plan to put the Federal Reserve in charge of reducing "systemic risk" and to regulate institutions considered too big to fail.

THE TAMING-CONGRESS CASE Those swing voters, polls suggest, want pretty much what Obama wants: short-term stimulus (middle-class tax relief, infrastructure investments, money to keep teachers and cops on the job) and long-term discipline (including some new tax revenue).

But the dilemma is how to make fiscal policy more flexible, in order to take pressure off monetary policy, while still maintaining long-term discipline.The Business Council of Australia proposes that an independent body should be given the power to make small adjustments to tax rates in response to the state of the Australian economy without the need for parliamentary approval.

To maintain long-term budget discipline the stimulus package should be temporary.

In the long-term, more discipline and coordination and more financial transparency are good things.

"It has to be coupled with long-term fiscal discipline to take the pressure off long-term rates".

But there has been no attempt to link this short-term splurge to long-term fiscal discipline, and proposals for bold structural reforms are thin on the ground.

The solution to the deficit, however, is not to forgo temporary stimulus in a time of need but to lock in long-term fiscal discipline.

Mr. Bush gave up long-term fiscal discipline for short-term political gain, and the salad days of surpluses have transmogrified into the bad old days of budget bickering.

"The singular focus on a large tax cut has led him to be too negative a voice on the economy and seemingly too unconcerned with maintaining long-term fiscal discipline," said Gene Sperling, President Bill Clinton's economic adviser.

"While we are supporting measures like small-business lending and tax cuts to spark growth," Mr. Sperling added, "it is also important to show the world that we are following through on our commitment to long-term fiscal discipline".