Surely any objective assessment would judge these to be among the most unwise cuts of all?
The contrast with David Cameron's unwise election pledge is instructive: under pressure in the TV debates the Tory leader promised to protect pensioners' perks, winter fuel money and bus passes.
Related: 'Stop punishing the poor': what social care wants from the government This disparity in treatment is not only unfair, it is also unwise: a textbook case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
But given the animosity shown towards him by senior Tories – just before the election, they plotted to unseat him – the Conservatives might be unwise to expect him to favour them.
Vice President Biden's team would be unwise to buy into this convenient line of thought.
Paul Goldberger, the former architecture critic of the New Yorker and former dean of the prestigious Parsons design college in New York, now a contributor to Vanity Fair, sent out a tweet saying that her lawsuit was unwise and would gain her a reputation as "the architect who sues critics".
Witness Boris Johnson's sarcastic column in Monday's Telegraph in which he suggested the Tories should "save the Panda" – a nickname for Miliband that emerged after an unwise description of him by the former Labour justice secretary, Jack Straw.
The book has courted some controversy, notably over his contention that President Obama was unwise to let his teenage daughters listen to music by Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Most Lib Dems think the party would be unwise to try to form a coalition if it secures fewer than 30 seats, as it would not be able to exercise sufficient clout in government or command many senior ministerial positions.
Given that we live in a democracy, contempt for the electorate seems an unwise approach to persuasion.
Yvette Cooper said Cameron was "unwise" not to have also criticised the EDL, but foreign secretary William Hague said a PM's speech should not be shelved "because some people have chosen to march down a street".
