Tough times call for tougher decisions.
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Whatever pain we go through now, our suffering will provide for the future of the next generations.
As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.
We can't continue to spend where there isn't any money.
If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.
I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.
A recession forces excruciatingly difficult choices.
Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start!
There is no belt to tighten anymore.
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!
Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.
Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.
You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.
You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
