Sentence examples for earmarked too much from inspiring English sources

"We spent too much, borrowed too much, earmarked too much.

Mr. Romney sought to lump Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Santorum into the same group who "spent too much, borrowed too much and earmarked too much".

I'm talking about 'we' in the general sense because these were folks in Washington, and frankly Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich were a big part of the 'we' that spent too much, borrowed too much and earmarked too much".

There is a slightly more nuanced case to be made as well: That by banning earmarks, lawmakers forfeited too much power to the executive branch.

That money is earmarked for Californians who paid too much for their energy because of the scheme.

The only common thread I could ascertain was that this was tea for "too": taxes are too high; spending is too much; earmarks are too many; the deficit is too large; government is too big; and Obama is too liberal.

Congress spends too much time doling out earmarks, argues Jeff Flake, a Republican representative from Arizona, and not enough on the rest of the budget.

And while, as Mr. Inouye acknowledged, there has also been far too much corruption and favor-trading over earmarks, recent Democrat-led reforms (and the Internet) have ushered in what he called "an age of real transparency".

At the moment, we're spending too much on things that consume resources like the military and earmarks—and not enough on things that create them.

At the moment, we're spending too much on things that consume resources — like the military and earmarks — and not enough on things that create them.

Too much debt might make a company's stock riskier because of the earnings that must be earmarked to pay interest on the debt.