Sentences with phrase «irresponsible spending on»

This leads to a predisposition towards irresponsible spending on automobiles, entertainment, and clothing.

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The only solution is for governments everywhere to spend big time on infrastructure and act «irresponsible» thus driving down the value of their currency, raising inflation, and inspiring the filthy, stinking rich to invest it or lose it.

Millennials are often labeled as being financially irresponsible, spending too much on frivolous things or experiences, but they are actually positioning themselves to be in better financial...

«Calls for long - term increases in spending on school meal programs are irresponsible,» Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, testified before a House hearing last month.

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told a House hearing this summe that «long - term increases in spending on school meal programs are irresponsible.»

Republican Representative Paul Ryan's latest budget cuts Medicare spending 50 % and Medicaid spending 75 % to pay for a 12.5 % tax break for millionaires; Republican intransigence on raising revenue to lower the deficit will trigger irresponsible cuts to our defense budget; and Republicans want to strip women of the ability to make health care choices for themselves.»

While irresponsible and wasteful spending must certainly be flagged, these judgements should be based on a rigorous and accurate analysis of the data at hand.

It is unfair and irresponsible of the government to put pressure on the public to spend in order to revive the economy.»

Our children are going to have to pay higher taxes for years as a result of irresponsible spending by the last government - and in case you think I'm biased - I was a card carrying Labour party member until I found out how much we are in debt due to overspending on such things as CTF.

Less than a day after delivering a forceful State of the State speech declaring an end to irresponsible state spending, the governor equivocated, telling a radio interviewer he should be judged on the goals he sets, not whether he accomplishes them.

Village officials in Kiryas Joel on Friday said the decision by the Orange County Legislature to spend $ 200,000 to fight the annexation issue in court is «an irresponsible waste of taxpayer money and a cynical maneuver in direct opposition to the lawful and legal action by two democratically elected boards.»

White Plains, New York, December 7, 2010: The Republican members on the Westchester County Board of Legislators today branded yesterday's budget maneuvers by the Democratic legislators as fiscally irresponsible and called the addition of $ 43 Million in additional spending,» a total disregard for the taxpayers of Westchester and a full retreat in the effort to downsize County government.»

«You can either be the insurgency and look to the public at a moment of very difficult judgements to be irresponsible, to be radical, to be ranting, or on the other hand, you can build on what we have spent a very great deal of time building on, which is to make the party appear serious and capable of confronting the issues that now confront us.

«To spend a billion dollars to go find life from Florida on Mars is both irresponsible and completely scientifically indefensible.»

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Asking the courts or, more precisely, outside consultants to provide a scientific answer to the question of how much should be spent on schools is irresponsible.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

Most of the problems stem from failure to pay bills on time or being fiscally irresponsible with spending.

Being irresponsible means taking out more money than you can afford, not repaying loans on time, being chronically late, and spending too much with lines of credit.

It also means that all of the structural imbalances we have observed are utterly meaningless, and that irresponsible spending by both governments and consumers have no negative impact on the overall economy.

I resent some of the comments here that imply that people are either irresponsible or just don't care about their dogs if they don't spend a fortune on the food they feed them.

Irresponsible spending and poor account management both together and alone can very easily cause someone to trigger the penalty APR on their card.

Don't get lulled into irresponsible spending just because it's the holidays and everything seems to be on sale.

It seems almost silly in some ways, and to some Dot Earth readers borderline irresponsible, to spend time focusing on the day when astronomers spot a rock the size of, say, a hockey rink — or if we're less lucky a city block — slinging around the Sun in an orbit and on a timetable that could cause it to smash into Earth.

In other words, it's financially irresponsible to spend thousands of dollars on a large, powerful vehicle whose purpose will rarely be put to use.

Before you rule their spending as being totally irresponsible, remember that sometimes spending extra money on a quality item can be a good value in the long run.

It's sad when one parent has it together and the other parent is vindictive, abuses the children, violates court orders, and forces an innocent parent to spend money on an attorney and going to court to hold the irresponsible parent accountable.

As an adult, it becomes important to have credit built up under your name, but irresponsible spending or missing payments can have a huge impact on financial freedom.

An example of this is a six - year - old who will say they don't want to see their father because he is «irresponsible with money and spends all of it on his girlfriend instead of his children.»

When questioned by people who think they were / are irresponsible bringing so many children into this world, especially in recent years with the state of the economy, the answer is always: they did this with a purpose, so that when they get old, and of course they will, they will spend a year living with each of their adult children, feeling money spent on raising them was better spent than investing in financial programs.