Word: budgeteer
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...last jape, the 2006 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, contained a nude-wrestling scene that had the star's face in the genitals of his fat, hairy assistant - but it received wide distribution and grossed $129 million domestically on an $18 million budget because the MPAA withheld the taboo rating and gave it an R, which means kids are allowed if accompanied by adults (or if they can sneak into the indifferently policed auditoriums showing the film). Universal, the studio that paid $40 million for the U.S. rights...
...Administration is already suggesting that its stimulus package, aid to banks, and budget will stretch the Treasury to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to cover a deficit that will be well over one trillion dollars in the next federal fiscal year. Bringing in that money is already projected to raise interest rates on Treasuries. That will ripple out to business and consumer loans including mortgages. The idea the rates will fall further is bogus...
...million jobs lost in Detroit would also cut deeply into the receipts that the IRS is forecasting over the next year. That puts the revenue projections in the budget at real risk...
...years and put more millions of Americans out of jobs. The U.S. tax base will be ruined, which will cause huge deficits because of rapidly falling IRS collections as corporations and individuals lose their ability to create income. Even if government keeps expenses as they were last year, the budget deficit will balloon and the Treasury will have to issue more debt to cover the difference...
...John McCain, President Obama famously declared that the government needed to use a “scalpel” instead of a “hatchet” to reduce spending. The state of California, however, seems to have no problem with using a hatchet to address its current budget crisis. As of mid-March, the government will have issued over 25,000 pink slips to teachers statewide, to the outrage of teachers, parents, and students alike...