Hence the interest in two mooted ballot initiatives.First, a conservative group called Rescue California, which helped gather signatures to recall the previous big-spending Democratic governor, Gray Davis, wants to launch a ballot initiative that would limit spending increases to the rates of inflation and population growth.
Spending time with my mates on the estate meant getting up to mischief, so there was an appeal in hanging out with Nick and Richard, who'd introduced us.
Spending days cooped up in an overheated minibus with a random assortment of strangers ticking off the sights ought to be a recipe for disaster, and yet some of my happiest travel experiences have been group holidays.
Were Bournemouth to look at the bottom three of the Premier League at the moment they might judge that QPR's high-spending, high-risk policy has not really worked and neither has changing manager so often.
A similarly light-touch regime holds for food: after years of fighting between consumer groups and the (now eviscerated) Food Standards Agency, and big-spending food manufacturers, a new set of traffic-light labels will be introduced.
When further Department of Environment 'winners and losers' figures came in showing there would be 7.5m losers or 44% of the population, including significant numbers in low-spending English shire counties, even Ken Baker was prepared to consider alternatives.
The British government is worried about the impact on the City of London and losing the capital's big-spending oligarchs.
The combined 2014 upstream capital spending bill for the big five is three and a half times the sum devoted to research and development by the world's five biggest-spending drug firms.
There is also an important political point that the level of spending is now higher than assumed in the post-election Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook in December 2013, which the Abbott government used to beat up on the previous government as big-spending and reckless fiscal managers.
Amazon has begun offering free delivery to big-spending South-East Asian shoppers who don't mind waiting for wares shipped from America.
For example, Mr Brown's rules mean that their borrowing from the private sector will mean there is less available within public-spending limits for other hospitals.
