Many delegates and accompanying members shared the same surname, and the trip, which cost 7.2 million baht was attacked for "squandering" state funds for personal pleasure, disbursing unrealistic expenses, and inflating costs.
She squandered the state's revenues and made humiliating concessions to the rebellious nobles.
"We will not squander the state's resources on a case that has very little probability of winning," she said.
When Mr. Rowland warned legislators not to squander the state's projected $500 million budget surplus at "the mall of new government programs," many Democrats grumbled derisively.
Importing countries, such as Britain, must cope with the social effects of addiction and end up squandering the state's resources on a Sisyphean policing task.
After The New York Times published two articles last year that detailed how billions of dollars were potentially being squandered by the state's Medicaid program, Representative John E. Sweeney, a Republican from upstate New York, and State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Nassau County Republican, called for the federal audit.
During nearly 12 years in power, he has squandered the country's wealth and failed to build effective state institutions, particularly the army, police and civil service.
In brief, it's too high a price for this country to pay -- in environmental damage, in precious oil squandered, in flouting state-of-the-art vehicle safety standards -- for a legion of affluent Walter Mittys to release their inner Paul Bunyans.
The additional revenue generated for national budgets in the interim years appears to have evaporated, as the region's petro states squandered much of the wealth that was created.
In any state where a severance tax is paid by gas companies on the gas they extract, any losses — as on federal lands — would represent squandered revenue for the state.
