They have to cut down the office staff.

Haiti' s plan calls for subsidizing nonpublic schools to eliminate or reduce tuition.

When the economy is bad (think 2008), then advertising is the first to be cut.

Instead of cutting budgets in those countries, Sarkozy in France, Obama in the US are actually ploughing more money into those leading institutions.

They could almost certainly get a deal by agreeing to cut spending later in exchange for borrowing now.