These are publicity of the rationale for spending, relevance of the rationale to the context of the decision, appeals to allow feedbacks and change and enforcement of the decision made.
Like many of his peers, Stephen Moore, director of fiscal studies at the Cato Institute, which has long condemned new federal spending, offered a rationale for the measures Bush has taken that he finds distasteful.
The problems fall into four main categories: Entitlement cuts that he swore up and down he'd never make; mindless deep cuts to government agencies that do real work and provide important services; defense spending without strategic rationale; and a complete lack of realism, vision and purpose.
Somewhere between the president to Cabinet agency to sub-Cabinet -- somewhere along the way, I'm pretty sure that you'd lose wide public support". Officials offer many rationales for spending to create original art, a tradition that has encompassed not only Cabinet agencies but also the White House, Congress and Supreme Court.
Congressional leaders spend more time devising rationales for permanent warfare than strategies for accommodation.
The endless cycle of new stadiums, new roads, new railways, new infrastructure might give the hosts a (much-disputed) Keynesian rationale for spending money on a World Cup.
Protection of public-sector jobs trumps any economic rationale.This spending binge is not only misallocating resources, but also crowding-out private-sector credit.
The most basic rationale for spending public money at an EU level is that investment can help bring poorer countries up to the level of the European average, even beyond it: just look at Ireland.
He explained the rationale behind spending more on original commissions, highlighting research commissioned from Populus that showed 51% of people surveyed thought Sky was the leading brand for entertainment.
At the start of his months-long pursuit of universal health care, Obama cited the need to "bend the cost curve" of entitlement spending as a chief rationale for the bill.
Here, however, insofar as it appears that the administration is acting opportunistically, and deploying a post-hoc rationale for spending the money everyone knows Congress refused to appropriate, it looks as though Congress lacks the ability to discipline the executive.
