The combination of lower-than-expected taxes and higher-than-justified spending is causing a mad scramble to make budgets balance.
Did the voters actually imagine that we could make significant reductions to budgets without touching the entitlements that make up 41% of federal spending and are promising to take an even larger chunk in the coming years?
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
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Budgets would make law firms think about their hours and how they staff a project.
Finally, new parents should attempt to make space in their budgets for college savings.
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You will have to balance budgets but make sure that your residents are educated, policed and kept healthy.
Do you think the rise of low-budget horror presents an opportunity to expand the greening movement into that genre of production, where the smaller crews and trim budgets might make greening an easier sell, and where overall environmental impact is already comparatively lower but could be even more substantially reduced?
Right now school districts all around Utah and the country are forced to make cuts because of shrinking budgets.
Our marketing and sales execution will continue to get more focused and efficient as we make better use of our budgets and human resources.
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But the main aim is to get governments to give more help to Roma from existing budgets, and to make better use of the funds already available from international institutions.
Tight budgets, for example, make it harder for the government to increase discretionary spending.
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The Japanese hope tight budgets and green wishes will make for big profits.
Cipfa director of policy Ian Carruthers said tight budgets meant councils had to make difficult choices between tax rises and cuts in services.
Better still, they should make further increases in their official aid budgets to take on these diseases, both bilaterally and through global funds.
Individual bankruptcy, meanwhile, is a rarity, and those who enter it are generally expected to cut their budgets to the bone to make at least partial repayment.
Once they receive their vehicles, they must make low monthly payments based on their personal budgets.
Patients knew that any suggestions I might make would have negligible consequences for their own budgets, so "more" became the expectation.
Risk, regulation and business growth will be a challenging combination for major banks, but the best will find ways to make them work together, even with tight budgets.
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Consequently, carriers are offering lessons on how to text, introducing phones with larger sized buttons to make it easier to text and increasing media budgets to target older users.
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Not a week goes by without seeing some headline about deficits pushing municipalities to desperation or Bill Gates describing state budgets using accounting techniques that would make Enron blush.
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For instance, a recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly points out that technology budgets are a favourite place to make cuts, but indiscriminate chopping will be more damaging than ever before because IT systems are now so tightly interwoven with everything from supply chain management to the determination of pricing strategies.
Today we have what can only be called the preordained blockbuster, with every summer bringing a series of big-budget spectacles that we are basically told ahead of time that we will flock to in massive numbers, creating ever-larger opening weekends and ever-larger global earnings (even as the budgets grow so high as to make those massive global grosses absolutely necessary).
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You monetize the debt to make 7% inflation, real debt shrinks, budgets head towards balance as the notional income rises and costs stay flatish.
Huge, vast, budgets and timescales requiring ever wider distribution to make the sums balance in the end.
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Tighter budgets, less resources, and more students make it hard for administrators and teachers to meet all the priorities of students with disabilities.
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That could take pressure off national budgets and, by boosting overall payouts, make it easier to move countries in search for a job.
And before the snarky remarks fill up the comments section for this column, yes, I know: Budgets and KPIs always impact what we can make.
The report also casts doubt on the policy of personal health budgets, which provide cash for people to make their own decisions about NHS care.
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These sorts of win-win contracts should make sense at any time, but are even more welcome when budgets are tight, as they are today.
As families sit at their kitchen tables to assess their own budgets and priorities, they know they will have to make hard choices about how they spend their money and what they sacrifice to grow their savings.
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