No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.