The Ryan proposal doesn't touch military spending; it further challenges our solvency by giving the rich an even bigger tax break; and it courts another disaster by seeking the repeal of the recent financial regulation law.
The treasury secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, said the Republican tax cut proposals "primarily benefit the highest income Americans" and would explode in cost as time went by, imperiling the nation's ability to deal with long-term challenges like maintaining the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare systems.
Of these indicators, surgical wound infection, time to surgery, neonatal mortality rate and financial solvency were left out due to challenges in data collection.
Carmen M. Reinhart: At first, the E.C.B. mistook a chronic solvency problem for a temporary liquidity challenge.
The diplomat, Robert H. Serry, special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, told the Security Council that the Palestinian Authority "faces an acute challenge in maintaining its solvency" and noted its late payment of government salaries.
Southwest invaders Juana Mystica, Rocky Jones and Sticks and Stones have been supplemented to the trials at a cost of $11,700 after impressive showings in futurities elsewhere and will challenge such promising youngsters as Solvency, Call Me Parr, Life Styles, Stars In Her Crown and Victory Dash.
Expensive, unsuccessful litigation would have been embarrassing for a school district already facing financial challenges serious enough to threaten its solvency.
Vice President Cheney blasted Hagel for asking key questions about the solvency of thinking about the Iraq War and challenged his loyalty to President Bush, the Republican Party, and the nation.
"This is frustrating because people look at these punctuation points in the Afghanistan debate as serious assessments of the challenges, what our intelligence is saying and whether the solvency of deploying American men and women and huge financial resources makes sense.
The real challenge for federal officials is dealing with the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare.
