Nor would America's still-powerful real-estate industry let its federal safety-net go without a fight.
The safety-net beneath the euro zone's third- and fourth-biggest economies is flimsy, and investors know it.
The unions want the government to protect jobs and improve provisions for a social safety-net.
The new policies mostly worked eventually, once they were backed by a social safety-net.
There's talk of across-the-board pay freezes and even more social safety-net cuts, among other ideas.
Spending will also increase because of the need to provide a social safety-net for a greying society.
Because it is starting almost from scratch, India could build a retirement safety-net that is fully funded and privately managed.
But the government is already having difficulty raising the 7.9 trillion won it has promised to spend on a safety-net.
But Republicans should also encourage other safety-net repairs that would lead to fewer poor people needing Medicaid in the first place.
At the least, generous outsiders would need to provide a welfare safety-net.
It has placed its faith in the colossal safety-net that the government strung under the banks at the height of the 1997-98 crisis.
California already has the worst credit rating among the 50 states, and budget cuts have torn a hole in the state's social safety-net.
Once the government brought in a more-or-less credible safety-net, people seemed to become less afraid that Japan's financial system was about to collapse.
ECONOMIST: Just possibly, something to sing about at last | The
If I am right, if a more cautious strategy is what investors truly need, then should government do its best to encourage Safety-Net-style portfolios?
The GOP budget enshrines conservative fiscal principles that are anathema to Democrats, raising no taxes and making substantial cuts in Medicare and other safety-net programs.
The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn't.
"I hope vocabulary terms like 'safety-net hospital' go away, " he said.
Life insurers spy opportunity in the crumbling of India's traditional extended families and the threadbare social safety-net, which can be padded out only with private savings.
For decades, policy wonks on the Republican fringes had talked about turning Social Security, the government safety-net program for retirees, into a system of private investment accounts.
Although the budget is nonbinding and isn't likely to become law, it fleshes out Democrats' vision of a plan to reduce the deficit while protecting safety-net programs.
For their part, investors in convertible bonds got a small safety-net in the form of an interest payment, but also much of the upside of the shares.
Above all, Mr Lundgren thinks the party must work harder at trying to convince Swedes that a more free-market approach will not rip away their cherished social safety-net.
Perhaps it's time for New Yorkers to put their mayor on a power diet, and to wise up about the real trade-offs between expanding safety-net programs and personal choice.
Then there is Medifund, a safety-net program for the bottom 10 percent of income earners, and Eldershield, a private insurance program for long-term care for those with old age-related disabilities.
It has stabilised the economy, built a million houses, brought water and electricity to many who lacked it before, and provided a safety-net for many poor families through old-age pensions.
Stuckler and his team are now exploring those country-by-country variances, and whether a country's investment in social safety-net programs is related to how closely the suicide rate mirrors the unemployment rate.
He hasn't embraced the bill Mr. Ryan shepherded through the House earlier this year that would fend off year-end cuts in military spending by squeezing from food stamps and other social-safety-net programs.
Cain said he strongly supports cross-state purchasing of health insurance, and he said he believes it is a proper role for government to provide a safety-net, with both state and national contributions.
More importantly, it would have to wait until Chinese consumers became sufficiently confident in the social safety-net and the provision of affordable health care and education that they were willing to save less and spend more.
应用推荐