California's prisons are a budget-busting debacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Battle Over CA Prop 5: Special Interests Overwhelming the Public Interest] Reference

California\'s prisons are a budget-busting debacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Battle Over CA Prop 5: Special Interests Overwhelming the Public Interest] Reference

Why do we accept the budget-busting costs of a welfare state?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Rand Relevant?] Reference

Sometimes a budget balancer, sometimes a budget-busting spender.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Revolutionary President] Reference

For a family of four, that rises to a holiday budget-busting £90.    From Wordnik.com.  [Airlines hit travellers with extra baggage charges] Reference

I'll work to end the massive budget-busting tax breaks for big oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008] Reference

Voters liked the budget-busting tax cuts and entitlement expansions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellis Weiner: The Way He Douthat Thing He Do] Reference

Many blue dogs went with the Republicans on those budget-busting votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Big Test] Reference

Twenty years ago, tensions boiled over into a bitter, budget-busting bloodbath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasure Island] Reference

But in a period of expensive oil, budget-busting fuel subsidies may no longer be tenable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sby Feels The Heat] Reference

"We know that Bob Ehrlich is good at making budget-busting campaign promises," Brown said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ehrlich pushes 'no-brainer' military tax exemption] Reference

That's the only way we can protect everybody from communicable or budget-busting illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [the imperative of universal healthcare] Reference

  And if someone signs on to buy a budget-busting home or car, they should expect to lose it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prof. Elizabeth Warren on why we need the CFPA, Part 4] Reference

He'll make his budget-busting tax cuts permanent and plunge the country into a sea of red ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preparing for the Economic Typhoon] Reference

To see how this metaphysical principle drives politics, consider the budget-busting tax cuts of 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Hirshman: Liberal Principles] Reference

Both sides agree on that, and they could have gotten that if it hadn't been a big budget-busting bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009] Reference

You cannot sustain through tanning salon taxes this trillion dollar, 10-year, budget-busting legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

Myth 1: Prime Minister Taro Aso is applying budget-busting fiscal stimulus including a return to public works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Japanese Stimulus] Reference

Howling about earmarks provides convenient political cover for big spenders who vote for budget-busting bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Real Spending Restraint Looks Like] Reference

If Obama offers a big, budget-busting program next year, it will more likely be seen as fair than irresponsible.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re Heading Left Once Again] Reference

The public option is a budget-busting, rationed care sentence for the American public that deserves so much better!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats find compromise on public option elusive] Reference

Lincoln voted to extend unemployment benefits 92% of the time while also supporting the budget-busting estate tax repeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conor Kenny: Each Senator's Record on Unemployment Benefits (and a Bit of Fiscal Responsibility)] Reference

Well, this year's budget-busting gas prices are already forcing a lot of people to try and change their lives in some way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008] Reference

It would have been easy to join in with those who had risky budget-busting tax schemes or some other idea for using that money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At Roundtable On Women And Retirement Security] Reference

They also liked that he was the only state legislator to oppose a budget-busting contract for the powerful prison guards union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principle Beats Pork in California] Reference

House and Senate conservatives just agreed to move forward on another budget-busting tax bill favoring the wealthiest Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Breaking: House, Senate Conservatives Agree on $70 Billion In New Tax Cuts for the Rich] Reference

In a number of studies, Mr. Merrow and other researchers have demonstrated that budget-busting is the norm for infrastructure work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short] Reference

There's no way to kn ow for sure if all the budget-busting moves enacted by both administrations prevented a second Great Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study argues stimulus, other action averted second Great Depression; others disagree] Reference

It is the GOP leadership of Congress that rammed through much of his budget-busting legislation that leaves this country mired in debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics, shame & the truth] Reference

When it comes to the military budget, however, peacenik right and left are on the same side, stridently against the budget-busting center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left & Right Against War] Reference

When Banda was ousted, international donors demanded that the new government lift budget-busting subsidies, taking away much of the farmers 'safety net.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom Is Not Enough] Reference

SYLVESTER: But taxpayer groups say the budget-busting legislation sets a bad precedent at a time when Congress has mounting obligations, including the war in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 19, 2005] Reference

Even Cuomo, supposedly the symbol of New Deal traditions, says he's willing to challenge the sanctity of budget-busting entitlement programs like government pensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stripping Off The Straitjacket] Reference

  “Input inflation,” industry-speak for the rising cost of ingredients, as well as soaring transportation and energy costs, created budget-busting chaos for many Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steamed over ‘sticky’ pricing] Reference