The trouble with playing to the domestic gallery, however, is that it eventually restricts room for manoeuvre.
The growing pessimism – ahead of figures today expected to show a further rise in unemployment – is restricting room for manoeuvre.
Other forms of indirect waste include the inappropriate use of skills, and "ghosts" that plague payrolls while restricting room for new employment.
The pressure on the chancellor, who is planning to outline the broad details of his cuts plans in his budget next month, comes after David Cameron severely restricted the room for manoeuvre on welfare cuts by ruling out any changes to child benefit.
And many of Mexico's most important commitments are international ones: 80% of exports go to the United States via the North American Free-Trade Agreement, which has restricted presidents' room for manoeuvre since before the democratic era.From revolution to consensusMexico's next president will not enter Los Pinos until December 1st.
John Hawksworth, chief economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers said: "It will be a very close call whether the chancellor will meet his key fiscal target of eliminating the structural deficit by 2016-17 and this clearly restricted his room for manoeuvre in the Autumn Statement.
The Scots finance secretary added: "What we've essentially got is a chancellor putting a straitjacket on the public finances of Scotland, restricting our room for manoeuvre and restricting the hard cash - real money - we can spend".
In his open letter, Hansen wrote: "You are restricting my room for exercising my editorial responsibility.
"Even though I am editor-in-chief of Norway's largest newspaper, I have to realize that you are restricting my room for exercising my editorial responsibility," he wrote.
Facebook had to endure a lecture from Aftenposten's editor, Espen Egil Hansen, who brought a generous dose of Scandinavian censoriousness to his front page: Even though I am editor-in-chief of Norway's largest newspaper, I have to realise that you are restricting my room for exercising my editorial responsibility.
