Sentences with phrase «in public spending undermining»
But it is increasingly clear that these traditions are being abandoned by Clegg as he goes along with damaging cuts in public spending undermining economic growth, tax rises hitting the poorest hardest, and a clear threat to the universal welfare state.
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What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.
David Cameron spent the last half - hour before Wednesday's draft Queen's Speech gently undermining public confidence in the prime minister.
In essence, this involves two things: growing the private sector, and reforming the public sector so that what the Government does — and the money it spends — boosts, rather than undermines, Britain's competitiveness.
This kind of casual attitude to spending taxpayers» cash undermines faith in the public sector and is yet more evidence of how under Labour the Audit Commission forgot that its job was to protect the public purse.»
«When you don't reveal who is getting paid and you operate behind a cloak of secrecy, it can undermine the public's trust in how the money is being spent,» Dadey said.
The debate about the future no longer involves the consideration of arguments, or of creating trust in public institutions — trust, which, ironically, Monbiot has spent the last 20 or so years doing his best to undermine.
Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries