That effort tends to prune extraneous spending.
And the parties disagree about how to prune federal spending.
Mr Cunha has already pledged to put to a vote a constitutional amendment that would stop the government from pruning extra spending mandated by Congress through earmarks.
Fearful of repeating the mistakes of the last recession, when they lost market share because they slashed their advertising budgets, many advertisers with prominent international brands have also been pruning their spending on other marketing services.
Pruning federal spending would indeed free-up economic growth in the private sector if the scale of that spending was actually the main barrier to renewed private-sector investment and job creation.
The answer was no, but so far Mr. Kaufman, 29, of Fort Collins, Colo., has kept his social media routine to less than 30 minutes each morning (well, except for the day he spent pruning the list of people he followed on Twitter to 85, down from an indigestible 1,500).
Mr. Loughlin was one of many winemakers in the region welcoming the spring hatch of wine-lovers after a winter spent pruning vines, fertilizing soil and attending to quieter tasting rooms as wines from last season underwent their initial aging in storage tanks.
For sufficiently large values of k, the time spent pruning buckets exceeds the time visiting buckets containing superfluous fingerprints.
Mr Putin has sought to downplay the concerns, but policymakers are discussing pruning back the list of spending commitments he made when he took back the presidency in 2012.
A surtax of FFr22 billion ($3.56 billion) has been slapped on business and FFr10 billion pruned from this year's government spending in a bid to bring the deficit "close" to the 3% Maastricht target this year and at it or below it, according to latest government forecasts, next year.
