The budget needs to be passed in order for funds to be released from the EU-IMF bail-out package for Ireland.

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Lohr was being sought on warrants out of Las Animas County for a bail violation and a violation of a protection order, according to court records.

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All of which brings us back to the even more horrifying notion that the state should intervene in order to protect or bail out that which the markets have left for dead.

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The bigger the bail-out, the weaker the incentive for countries like Italy and Greece to put themselves in order.

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