Sentences with phrase «economically illiterate»

But the media and the public are economically illiterate enough so that it might take a very long time for people to realize this.

While the hard right of the party, by subscribing to economically illiterate and socially unjust policies of austerity are consigning themselves to fourth place in the Party's leadership election, the Corbyn campaign is capturing all the headlines — and maybe, a substantial enough portion of the votes to win.

Not only is the cut immoral, but it is economically illiterate - facing the clear risk of a triple - dip recession, the government is planning to pull millions of pounds out of the pockets of people who, had they received it, would certainly have fed the money back into the economy in buying food, buying energy, and buying services.

You are arguing that Labour should support a harmful and economically illiterate policy that we know is wrong in order to gain political advantage.

The problem economically illiterate folks like you have is that can you can't grasp the fact its going to cost many small business owners who struggle to pay bills upwards of $ 6,000 an employee a year.

Calling Byrne economically illiterate is a kind and generous, and the best that can be said of Twigg is that he's affable.

Despite the claims of Cameron and Osborne (and that rather politically naive and economically illiterate note left by Liam Byrne), the last Labour government was not profligate, it did not over-spend.

«In this context, it is not only insulting that Cameron should even consider lecturing people about paying off their credit cards, it is economically illiterate.

You're economically illiterate if you don't understand that.

Either he is economically illiterate (possible, but unlikely) or he is adding to the Coalition Government's woes by using confusing language which makes it even harder for ordinary voters either to understand the scale of the problem, or the likely sacrifices to come in order to tackle it.

The new home secretary's suggestion that UK businesses could be forced to publish the numbers of international staff they employ, has been derided by many as economically illiterate, divisive, authoritarian, and xenophobic.

The economically illiterate «fanz» meanwhile are blind to all this, as they have no idea where money comes from.

You are economically illiterate, and you think running a club is like playing on your toy screen and clicking buttons!

Considering the FN's mercantilistic and economically illiterate economic policies, this is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire — as we mentioned above, society at large is bound to draw the short stick in any case.

The bank's opponents are «in some cases economically illiterate,» said John Engler, the president of the Business Roundtable and a former Republican governor of Michigan.

Most people are economically illiterate.

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Today this would include the homeless, the hungry, the imprisoned, the ignorant, the illiterate, any who are economically, environmentally and politically disadvantaged, the elderly, the sick, people in developing nations whose lives may be negatively affected by our own nations» economic policies, and those whose lives are threatened by sexism, racism and abusive ideologies.

We might have had two and a half thousand homeless families on our hands if we had not taken the decision to plough money into absorbing the costs of the government's economically - illiterate bedroom tax.