Candidates respond to a question about how they would tackle the national debt and control spending.
But, from a strictly financial standpoint, we must deal with our out of control spending.
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Continued delay now leaves a long boom as the only time to control spending.
Only a third of the federal government's drug-control spending goes on drugs education or drugs treatment.
Otherwise you do not have a sensible program for reducing our out-of-control spending.
Designed to control spending on the enormous entitlement, the SGR tied Medicare expenditures to the growth rate of the economy.
The Social Democrats claim (not implausibly) that the Kohl government has run out of steam and failed to control spending.
This 50 percent increase from three years ago confirms that federal energy favors are a part of our out-of-control spending problem.
The Reagan-era deficits were a function of Democrats unwilling to control spending.
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Using more colloquial language, trying to control spending with higher taxes is like trying to cure alcoholics by giving them keys to a liquor store.
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So while the government struggles to cap its spending, you can come away with a credit card that helps control spending while building your rating.
Nor can it reverse the deteriorating state fiscal crisis caused by weak economies and exacerbated by insanely high pensions and out of control spending policies.
One proposed use for chip-based cards is to control spending.
So I think this is -- we're not going to have a debate in Washington about whether we need to make some changes and whether we need to control spending.
Republicans who are so concerned about out-of-control spending now did not seem so worried (with one or two honourable exceptions) when it was Mr Bush steering the economy into the red.
"As part of our efforts to control spending, I want to see a modern, efficient public sector that provides essential services effectively while ensuring value for money for taxpayers, " he said.
Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, said the election is important because regions control spending on health care and education and account for half of government employees.
It was just four short months ago that Americans went to the polls to send the message that we were mad as hell with out of control spending and we were not going to take it any more.
Rather, we could safely abolish the debt ceiling and spare ourselves at least one source of political gamesmanship, since we have 105 (soon to be 106) pieces of hard evidence the debt ceiling does zippo to control spending.
The budget cuts forced by sequestration may be a bad way to control spending, but there is no question that the Pentagon can reshape its budget to meet current challenges while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
Meanwhile, any continuation of euro zone debt problems or failure to control spending in the U.S. will have its impact on those emerging markets that, while rich in capital and probably even rich in spirit, are by Western standards still quite poor as a whole.
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It is, I would have thought, pretty essential for conservatives who want to control government spending to have control of that government.
Getting overall spending under control inevitably means spending less on Medicare and Social Security.
But we know that this kind of spending, domestic discretionary spending, which has been the focus of complaints about out-of-control federal spending, makes up only about 12 percent of the entire budget.
All of these tax cuts will be meaningless if we do not control federal spending.
The Government needs to control their spending or we will never get out of debt.
But you wonder why, if everything is under control, spending has risen so fast.
Her argument is that a mature Parliament would have significant tax powers alongside its control of spending.
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