This new, profligate – almost punk — kind of business model trashed the tenets of an older generation brought up with rationing and restriction.
Hardline Republicans suddenly realised prisons had become profligate symbols of state failure and, to the delight of experts and liberals, shifted resources into tackling underlying causes of crime such as addiction, chaotic backgrounds, inadequate education and mental health issues.
Nick Clegg will want to portray himself as the middle way between extreme Tory cuts and profligate Labour spending, as well as emphasising his party's firm commitment to the EU and willingness to stand up to Ukip.
No German politician ever dared put the country's membership to a referendum, and with a booming export industry and a government committed to reducing the national debt, many Germans are furious at having to put up money to save states they see as profligate freeriders.
Rich countries in the north like Finland and the Netherlands – Angela Merkel's coalition too in state elections – are revolting against the tax burdens they feel they bear to bail out the "profligate" south.
His party has no members of parliament, a situation unlikely to change at the next election, and offers promiscuous and profligate policies that add up to errant nonsense as a platform for government.
There is disappointingly little new on climate change, and plenty to indicate that there is no enthusiasm for challenging Britain's profligate carbon consumption.
Davis was especially profligate when he took possession inside the area, turned into unchallenged space and from 12 yards, with only Olejnik to beat, sent the shot wide of the goalkeeper's left post.
It's the Greeks and the Irish, who can't inflate their way out of the crisis via Anglo-Saxon "quantitative easing" and who are facing years of austerity to compensate for the profligate ways of the past.
The global norm is four; London has a profligate 12.
After joining the euro in 2001 – and after a profligate decade that included an $8bn Olympic Games and torrent of cheap money – Greece hit a fiscal cliff in 2010.
