Moderate Republicans are more optimistic however and have suggested one such revenue-raising route might involve demanding that federal workers contribute more toward their pensions.
The vodkas that go the eyebrow-raising route are usually brands with lower sales volumes and smaller ad budgets, which hope the double entendres will generate buzz among drinkers.
The banks' funding shortfall has been made more acute by the seizing-up of trading in asset-backed securities, closing off another vital cash-raising route.Mr Bond reckons that in America, the combination of a rapid increase in commercial banks' assets and slow growth in customer deposits left a funding gap of more than $660 billion in the year to February.
Apollo took a different route, raising $828 million in August in a private offering and financing a $1.2 billion payment that month to its partners, including the founders Leon D. Black and Joshua Harris.
As politicians bicker and columnists wring their hands over Europe's refugee crisis, the award-winning children's writer Patrick Ness has taken a more direct route, raising more than £60,000 – and counting – in less than five hours.
Barclays, for example, took that route, raising a large sum in the Middle East.
Azumio, on the other hand, chose to go the venture route, raising $2.5 million from Founders Fund, Accel and Felicis (to name a few) last year.
Notably, STS typically metastasise by the haematogenous route, raising questions as to the role of VEGF-C or VEGF-D-mediated lymphangiogenesis in STS.
United Airlines has also switched to bigger planes on 35 regular routes, raising its capacity by thousands of seats.
Only one in five had taken the politically unpopular route of raising property taxes.
"Zero inflation is not a route to raising living standards," said the TUC general secretary, Frances O'Grady.
