The difficult, earnest approach (which the Treasury is keen to encourage) is to look for savings: cutting bloated programmes, firing staff, putting off big spending projects and the like.

最困难，也是最认真的方法(这也是财政部积极鼓励的方法)是想办法节省：删除雄心勃勃的项目，解聘员工，推迟特大支出计划的实施，等等。

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The Republican pyramid, about which I wrote September 4, is committed to selling key principles to American voters among those are boosting after-tax pay for the wealthiest people while cutting government spending on items like health care and social security.

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The more we pay for highways with general revenues or by cutting other spending, the more transportation looks like any other government program.

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And even with those countries in the emergency ward - like Greece and Portugal - how will they climb back to financial health whilst they are cutting spending in the midst of a recession?

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