Funding for romance scholarship was presented as wasteful, frivolous, and unnecessary – a clear example of government overreach and inefficiency.
The present system is extraordinarily wasteful.
But many of the attacks have been much more nefarious, feeding into a narrative that presents local government as wasteful, staffed by workshy employees with their snouts in the trough.
The result is a wasteful failure to seize the opportunities presented by the intimate intertwining of the TB and HIV epidemics.
Clarke had already found this approach to be wasteful in time and resources, preferring to present a "story" using agents and wireless traffic.
More generally, with any project inherited from the previous government, the only question is whether to appropriate it, and claim the credit, or dump it and present it as an example of wasteful Labor spending.
But a television attack ad presented the "luxury pier" as Snow's wasteful scheme.
About 36% of Americans are stressed out by having to buy presents; another 23% think giving them is wasteful.
Speaker John Boehner might not allow a floor vote because he is reportedly wary of another embarrassing uprising by Tea Party members demanding even deeper cuts — and presenting cogent arguments in some cases against wasteful largess for the agriculture industry.
Price is a Republican who has presented himself as a fierce opponent of wasteful spending and has (pretty poorly) advocated for the elimination of government funding for your healthcare.
