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California's budget problems show how overly-optimistic spending, combined with voter mandates and institutional constraints with none of it linked together, can lead to calamity.

Mark Muro: State's Budgets: You Don't Know the Worst Mark Muro 2011

California's budget problems show how overly-optimistic spending, combined with voter mandates and institutional constraints with none of it linked together, can lead to calamity.

Mark Muro: State's Budgets: You Don't Know the Worst Mark Muro 2011

Bob Herbert wrote that the projection that the tax on so-called Cadillac Plans will generate a lot of revenue is based on overly-optimistic assumptions about companies using the savings from switching to a lower-premium plan to give out raises which are subject to the income tax. ds Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced 2010

Toner rejected suggestions by Syrian dissident figures and regional analysts that the United States has an overly-optimistic view of the meeting of opposition members that Syrian authorities allowed to be held on Monday in Damascus.

US Sanctions Syrian, Iranian Police for Syria Crackdown 2011

One senior White House official stated the obvious, albeit in a overly-optimistic way: "This will allow us to say definitively that the Iraq war is over, and that the partnership between the US and Iraq will be a normal one between two sovereign nations."

HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Booster Not Feeling It This Season Eliot Nelson 2011

Perhaps news of apparently coordinated attacks might give overly-optimistic sideline-sponsors reason to pour some funds in Taliban coffers to draw out just a little longer the inevitable conclusion.

Lt. Col. Ed Ledford: What Effect Did the Taliban Attacks Have? None. Really, None. Lt. Col. Ed Ledford 2010

As with Timothy Geithner, the architects of the European banking stress tests hope that investors and the general public will believe their farce, based on totally unrealistic and overly-optimistic scenarios.

Sheldon Filger: European Bank Stress Tests are Tragic-Comedic Farce 2010

  He says officials are right not to promise any overly-optimistic timeframes for rescue that would inevitably lead to disappointment.

Trapped Chilean Miners Face Psychological, Physical Challenges 2010

It's hard to recall the shock that greeted reports of the young Societe General trader's scheme after the year we've been through, marked by the craven come-ons of the subprime mortgage industry, overpaid overly-optimistic CEOs, a bailout that defies the imagination (just imagine almost 8,000 tons of $100 bills) and that long weekend at Bernie's.

The Biggest Business Scandals Of 2008; From Jerome To Bernie 2010

As with Timothy Geithner, the architects of the European banking stress tests hope that investors and the general public will believe their farce, based on totally unrealistic and overly-optimistic scenarios.

Sheldon Filger: European Bank Stress Tests are Tragic-Comedic Farce 2010