Rewarding the profligate at the expense of the frugal is an open invitation to another round of bloated union contracts.
With the country preparing for local elections on May 18, the cabinet member Mr. Zuma chose to oversee local government, Sicelo Shiceka, is now embroiled in scandalous reports about his profligate living at public expense.
Naturally, some BIG SPENDERS are less profligate at meals they can't expense.
The financial system is geared towards helping the profligate government borrow cheaply at the expense of savers.
If anything, he seems to me almost relieved that it's not just the private sector that has been profligate - a bizarre idea when the expenses scandal has done him such damage.
Governments, businesses and high-emitting individuals around the world now face a stark choice: to reduce emissions in line with the clear message of the IPCC report, or continue with their carbon-profligate behaviour at the expense of both climate-vulnerable communities and future generations.
Mark Knight York Simon Jenkins describes the disparity between the profligate funding of culture in London at the expense of the rest of the country.
It would in any case be pointless to impose higher corporate-tax rates in the EU, for foreign (and domestic) investment can easily shift to lower-tax jurisdictions that are beyond the reach of Brussels.What, finally, about the worry that inspired the stability pact in the first place: the need to stop profligate euro members running up big deficits at others' expense?
He next became trustee of a New York City hospital workers' local whose president was ousted for profligate spending, including $257,530 for a dinner dance, $60,000 for undocumented credit card expenses, and several thousand dollars paid to a stress center where he received massages and music therapy.
He recounts tales of the drinking culture (the El Vino veritas chapter should not be missed), stories of seemingly unlimited expense accounts and anecdotes about the huge sums spent by a profligate management (for one Mirror event strawberries were flown in from Florida).
