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Over his presidency, President Bush has made great strides to increase foreign aid, so today's announcement of cuts to core development funding is a big disappointment. Although the US is the largest donor in the world, and US assistance had been on the increase, the US still lags behind other developed countries in that our contributions are small compared to the size of our federal budget and economy.

Overcrowded, multilingual, schools will not become manageable because the kids are suddenly the children of guest workers, instead of illegal aliens. Millions of unskilled laborers will not magically become high-earning taxpayers because they have work visas. State budget crises will not be alleviated, housing will not become more affordable, traffic will not become less congested, and middle class jobs will not become more plentiful if we give everyone who is here, or who wants to come here, a piece of paper that says they're legal.

Our focus regarding Idaho's property tax system has been to help legislators and others get a good understanding of the current Idaho property tax laws and how the 3 percent, plus growth budget limitation law works, ... Obviously local property tax budgets are growing more than 3 percent per year. We are helping show how that happens.

Our costs are going up in every category players, travel, you name it. Our budget never shrinks from year to year, it only grows.

Our bill is right at $9 million for the social services budget next year, which takes a major bite out of the things in the county that we need to be doing. We are appreciative of any level of relief but what we're looking for is total relief.

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

Our budget maximizes the tax cuts we can afford while remaining fiscally conservative. It is an honest, balanced plan that we can live with both practically and politically.

Our budget just hasn't been passing. The board is doing the best that it can. We need our legislators to voice our opinions to the governor.

Our budget is reallocating earmarks to reflect our higher-priority needs.

Our budget is down, and that's a good thing. The head count at Sudbury School is about 50 percent of what it was a decade ago and that decline is expected to continue to drop by 5 percent a year.

Our budget is about $5 million a year to advertise tourism nationwide. That's not much,

Our budget for streets has been $25,000. All that does is fix a few potholes.

Other than on budget day each year, I don't recall ever in my years as being premier, or in my years in provincial politics, ever making such a significant one-day investment announcement,

Our administration wants to be good in all sports--not just a power in basketball. They've put $1.5 million into our facility and given us the budget to travel and play good teams like Stanford and Clemson. Kids want to play those teams, and you get better by playing them.

Our 2006 capital expenditure budget will be approximately $1.1 billion, which will be scalable depending on market conditions. In addition, we will pursue alternative opportunities to expand our capacity through the use of strategic alliances.

Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.

Please do not try to balance the budget on the backs of our teachers. We need them. They're good, that's why they're here.

Reducing the budget deficit more quickly would certainly be a positive factor in the rating sense,

Regardless of what the president may say on Tuesday night, the Republican budget is an alarming story. It includes policies that increase the deficit by nearly $300 billion, heaping mountains of debt on our children.

Regularly using liquid savings to cover normal expenses may indicate you are not planning properly. If you find yourself doing that, you should reassess your overall budget strategy.

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

President Abbas has reiterated that cutting off fund for infrastructure or the annual budget will spell a humanitarian disaster that affects all people.

Our position is that statewide, the school board has a budget and allocates money to all schools in their district. We don't want legislation, the courts or anyone else telling us where to spend portions of (the districts') budgets.

Our police officers are out there risking their lives. The least we can do is help the family they leave behind. We can also show our appreciation to the officers who are still with us. Morale is not at its highest with budget cuts, and while we can't pay them, we can come out and show how much we believe in them and support them. We have a great bond with our precinct, but it is just like telling your wife you love her. You can't just say it once and forget. You need to keep these bonds strong.

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Our obligation is for the right budget for our schools.

Our objective is to grow our OEM business by penetrating the OEM areas we're in more deeply rather than look for new business, though we'll do that too. For the first time we'll have a budget and resources directly focused on this. The response from customers has been very enthusiastic.

Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.

Our materials budget for the current year is $19,500, which is the lowest it's been in many years. The proposed budget that you have presented to us is $10,000 for the year.

Our No. 1 goal is to restore budget cuts, and No. 2 is financial aid.

Our nation's education system already faces severe budget constraints and a shortage of resources. We shouldn't be diverting resources away from teaching to pay off bogus patent threats.

Our mission is to create the right condition for learning with affordability and quality. Hopefully residents will see that. This budget is not going to be an easy task.

Orchestrating a federal budget plan to allow Arctic drilling ... only serves to pay back big energy companies that have been hauling in record profits.

People need to step up to the plate and put in the extra hours and get the work done. There will be some areas in the budget that once had 30 employees that will now only have 20, and that's the reality. We'll provide them with the tools to be more productive.

People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.

State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget deficits over the last several years. The timing for a legislative pay increase isn't right.

Spending restraint was a major priority in the budget process, and the proof is in the pudding.

That doesn't leave a lot of extra money in the budget to support the types of things we're talking about. The things we're talking about would cost a lot of money sustained over time and that will be difficult for the city council. The city council is not going to be able to pull a rabbit out of their hat. It's going to take voter support.

That exponentially increases the budget for this mayor's race.

That doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense given this year's budget situation.

Narcotics trafficking has spawned a criminal elite that is fighting to control a budget the same size as that presented in Parliament by our minister of finance, but without any of the obligations for debt, employment and services, which is placed on the elected government.

Local and provincial governance needs to be improved. There will have to be hard budget constraints.

Long term rates are staying constant or coming down. At 5.43 percent you can budget for it. With your added interest savings, you can now have it paid off in fourteen years at a locked-in payment.

Look at the amount of money on my shoestring budget and I still made a good showing. It's a good start. ... A lot of people said name recognition was something I didn't have before. Now, I have it. I'm looking forward to positive things in the next few years.

Little or no increase in what the state pays to take care of its most troubled children has resulted in a $100 million budget hole.

I wish we had a finance director. We're working on the budget, for goodness sake. It would help us in getting together a budget and a five-year plan.

I was the one who spent time on the budget looking to say is this expense reasonable, is that expense reasonable. I asked questions that didn't tend to get asked.

I was hopeful that they were going to take a stand and vote to make it official that they intend to eliminate (longevity pay) during the next budget cycle. Voting in favor of eliminating it today would have sent a strong message to the voters and they chose not to do it. I was glad that Joe Jaynes did take a stand and make a motion, but I was disappointed that there was no second.

I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.

It doesn't have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.

It doesn't matter whether funding comes from a dedicated budget or from R&D. The trend is to remove funding from commercial ties to better comply with new industry trends. Some companies still rely on marketing or commercial ops for funding, but transition takes awhile, especially with larger companies.

It drove them nuts, ... But the interesting thing about it is, the following week they signed the budget exactly the way it was a week before.

It does take a bit of money out of their monthly budget ---- not a large bit, but a bit ---- but for someone who has not seen an increase in his pay envelope for a year or two, it can make an already bad situation worse.

It has become clear that Gordon Brown's budget forecasts are no longer in the realms of possibility.

I think historians in the future may wonder why in our defense budget we spent so much defending ourselves from missiles and so little defending ourselves from diseases,

I think going down to $20 dilutes the brand and makes it seem like a budget title. The message it sends is ESPN is a budget brand and it's not worth as much as Madden.

It allows them to budget based on past usage.

It didn't seem likely that states would take health insurance from a million people ... but that's what a number of states have done and are proposing to do -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg. They have to balance the budget somehow.

I stress that the assumptions reflected in the budget papers do not reflect any government decisions and do not reflect in any way a target price,

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

It is downright dishonest to tell taxpayers that there will be deep, painful and meaningful cuts in spending and then deliver a budget that balloons state spending by almost $3 billion.

I think this is a responsible budget for the elementary and secondary costs. With the secondary portion there were a lot of pieces out of our control.

I'm skeptical that a lot of people will use them, and I'm even more skeptical that Congress is in a mood right now to pass anything that has a negative budget impact.

Manuel has brought stability, he has bought long term predictability, he has brought pragmatism to the whole field of the budget and the economy.

Most recently, it's above that. We budget a contingency fund to deal with those extraordinary differences.

The ($500,000) would be nearly equivalent to our baseball budget or our softball budget. That's how big a deal this would be.

The 2006 budget is designed to generate a combined $186,645 in revenue over expenses. The 2006 budget is designed to deliver similar or improved service levels compared to the previous year.

The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... The Vortex of Bushonomics, The Downward Spiral & The Coming 2006 Budget Crisis.

The across-the-board cuts to all agriculture programs contained in the President's budget aren't a surprise. We dealt with that last year. But those cuts are a concern when we are still in the midst of world trade negotiations and when U.S. agriculture needs a strong bargaining hand while we seek reductions in trade barriers from other countries.

The American people deserve honesty, and this budget is dishonest by omission, and dishonest in how it portrays the overall budget projections.

That was probably their catering budget for three or four days.

The $11.3 billion record tax receipts will narrow the state's budget gap and will help us to get our fiscal house in order.

That was done because of a recognition that education takes a majority of our budget and because education influences other things like neighborhood character.

That's the item in our budget that grows significantly every year, ... We never turn a family away for financial reasons. Most of the people that have their children at Valley School are making a real personal financial sacrifice to have their children there.

That's the only way I see it passing. Because of budget restraints and programs being cut, I do not see it gaining momentum as a national playing rule and a required rule.

I was put on a budget and tried to stay in it, ... You can always call and say, 'I need some money.'

I was as disappointed as everybody else was. There was a loud hue and cry about the amount, that the House budget was less than the governor's budget on Chapter 70. That was not taken lightly.

My budget is a solid, balanced plan that allows us to make real, sustainable progress and provides the revenue necessary to fund our priorities.

Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes just as you plan ahead to pay for holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, and more.

Most certainly, all the budget specific questions have been answered.

Mike Bloomberg has been to Albany a dozen times as mayor and brought home $2.5 billion in extra budget aid over the governor's veto.

Mid-year budget amendments for health insurance and for state agencies are around $200,000, ... Which caused the budget to be off by $500,000.

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? ... It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

When that change was made about $370,000 was taken out of the budget in revenue collected,

When students graduate from college, the first rule of thumb is to create a budget and stick to it. Be sure to make your student loan payments on time, every time.

We have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.

You can go back years and place blame, but the bottom line is that we have a budget before us, and we need to be responsible to the taxpayers.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

You'll almost certainly spend all the rest of your pay, but your daily expenses will adjust themselves, magically, to the amount of money in your account. You will budget mentally, without having to write everything down.

You can have one budget that grows government at 10 percent or break the budget into three different bills, but the bottom line is this does not seem to be in keeping with the notion of a true spending limit.

While we try to avoid changing budget amounts, it's necessary in most cases to make sure that the customer doesn't end up with a large debit or credit at the end of the year.

When it comes to the finances of the budget that I'm given, and if I don't adhere to it, we make sure we have the resources to fundraising efforts to make up for any overages that may occur.

When it comes to budget decisions that would help us fight the long war, they either change nothing or walk in the wrong direction.

When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.

We can see the dollar figure cut out of the education budget that was put in by the Senate,

We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need for fiscal responsibility.

We hope that the budget is such that next year, finally, these important investments can be made in our state?s future.

While Dean counts the Vermont prescription drug program as an accomplishment, the truth is he put it on the chopping block four separate times. When the chips were down and Dean had to choose between balancing the budget and cutting prescription drugs for seniors, Governor Dean chose budget gamesmanship. That is not the type of president I would be.