To chip away at an overwhelming budget deficit, Miami's public hospital system stopped paying for kidney dialysis for the indigent this week, officials said, leaving some patients to rely on emergency rooms for their life-sustaining treatments.
SACRAMENTO — As states across the country struggle to deal with overwhelming budget deficits, a number of state officials, including those in California, have resorted to trying to sell state office buildings, pouring the proceeds into the general funds, and then leasing back the space.
2013 was a particularly trying year for Head Start, a pillar of America's War on Poverty, as programs nationwide faced overwhelming budget reductions that hindered the ability to provide the high quality early learning the President spoke of during last year's address.
The first blackout instantly became an emblem of civic spunk and resilience, the second of civic disarray and uncertainty at a time of overwhelming municipal budget woes, economic deterioration, and fear caused by a serial killer known as Son of Sam.
Perhaps Schuessler should take a tip from CKE Restaurants, which cited the Golden Arches' overwhelming marketing budget as a rationale for continuing the saucy, eye-catching Paris Hilton ads for CKE's Carl's Jr. and Hardee's chains.
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The Harmelin decision in 1991 and the sentencing scheme it upheld, enacted by the Michigan Legislature in 1978, bracketed the peak years of the "war on drugs," a public-policy obsession that created the massive incarceration problem that is overwhelming state budgets today.
Nor is there an overwhelming issue, like the budget deficit, that neither party is willing to confront.
So disdaining new revenue means that spending reductions would end up as the overwhelming contributor to our budget deficit reduction effort, as shown in chart 2. If sequestration remains in place, we will have taken $3.5 trillion out of the projected budget deficits of the coming decade.
Once people find out what is in the Ryan budget, the overwhelming majority thinks it is the wrong way for America to go.
The question now is whether Boehner's outburst -- and more importantly the subsequent overwhelming vote for the budget deal -- means the influence of such outside groups will simply collapse, or whether it will limp along for years like the old '70s sitcom did.
