"What started as an exercise in budget cutting and personnel reduction has become a way to serve customers," he said.
Even with rising taxes and budget cutting, some cities have not been able to keep up.
"And they are trying to mask it all under the grand illusion" of budget cutting.
And then the budget cutting could resume - assuming Congress did not find another reason to put it off.
He'd lost his job as a result of budget cutting.
And budget cutting meant the Government would play a shrinking role in the spending that keeps an economy going.
I don't understand where the Mayor thinks this budget cutting is going to get young people.
We know that budget cutting will result in the destruction of the industry because they have told us so.
I am sure you must realize that there is about to be some budget cutting.
"The rest of the world doesn't think we're serious about budget cutting."