Republican candidates campaign on the need for government to cut spending, but see nothing wrong with unlimited, wasteful spending to get them elected.
However, its proposals for paring the budget deficit — canceling unspent stimulus funds, ending government control of the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, capping new discretionary spending and rooting out wasteful programs — are hardly sufficient to get the nation onto a fiscally sustainable path, as a number of nonpartisan analyses have pointed out.
If it's too easy to get money, wasteful spending will surely follow.
The second, crucial step would be doing everything possible to get rid of wasteful medical spending: using the force of law to hold medical providers to their cost-reduction pledges; moving Medicare away from a fee-for-service model that pays for quantity, not quality; encouraging low-cost hospitals to grow and high-cost hospitals to change — or shrink.
Nigeria's wasteful passing, allied to their desire to get forward but their apparent uncertainty as to how, infuriated the crowd and encouraged Iran, who occasionally countered, usually though Ghoochannejad.
His aim, he said, is "to get rid of wasteful regulations that do absolutely nothing but slow down the economy".
I've always wanted to get something really neat and wasteful from Washington, like a pigeon museum.
Economists are virtually united in asserting that a combination of these demand and supply-side levers are the way to get a handle on a wasteful system.
Judith Wagner, a professor of education at Whittier College in California who directs its laboratory school for elementary and middle-school children, has also been struggling with how to get parents' support for less wasteful lunches.
Everton boss David Moyes: "We had controlled the game, but were wasteful in the second half when we had chances to get another goal, and we were always going to be put under pressure at the end.
