Of course, over-spending on election campaigns hardly constitutes a breach of propriety, especially these days.
We were over-spending all this time, what about exchange-rate policy, what about Chinese policy?
Tom Tancredo believes in fiscal discipline, pointing to over-spending as the root cause of our national debt.
They noted while central government spending was now "significantly below budget limits", local authorities and hospitals were still over-spending.
It is important for you to model good spending habits and to teach your child the consequences of over-spending.
Uncontrolled over-spending and unrealistic budgets often set too late had led to "serious inaccuracies" in the figures, according to the auditors.
On this subject, there is disagreement: Japan's Finance Ministry thinks that it is robust enough to tolerate a much-needed squeeze on chronic government over-spending.
Economies like China are slowing, most of it on purpose, the rest of it because of over-spending and slow growth in Europe, its principal trading partner.
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It added that while high levels of inflation in the defence sector could be partly blamed, the MoD had to take most of the responsibility for over-spending.
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Years of over-spending, corruption and mismanagement - largely, it has to be admitted, on the part of the Peronists themselves - have left Argentina with little credibility.
So what will act as a countervailing force against over-spending?
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As cyber security moves from a purely technical issue to a major business concern, CIOs are faced with the thorny problem of how to best protect their company without over-spending on security.
The fact is, GOP members have controlled the House since January 2011, and thus are the main cause of recent federal over-spending and the new pile of national debt now abutting the current limit.
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Yet the biggest problem remains over-spending.
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Beckham is one of the world's most recognisable names, both for his sporting prowess and numerous off-pitch endorsement deals, and his pulling power could provide a valuable income stream for PSG -- which must conform to European football's financial fair play rules that restrict over-spending by club owners.
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To be sure, there is a fine line between over-the-top spending and then being able to deliver.
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In looking at the economy as a whole, Dalio pays particular attention to the amount of credit that banks and other financial institutions are creating, which he regards as a key factor in over-all spending.
What is absolutely fascinating is that if you dig a little deeper and look at the structural failures that are really holding back the Brazilian economy they are very (almost shockingly) similar to those that plague Russia: high taxes, insufficient investment, inefficient government spending, over-reliance on consumer spending, excessive government red-tape, unreliable courts, poor transport infrastructure, rent-seeking, persistent inflation, high interest rates, and (potential) de-industrialization.
Likewise, debt-fueled spending risks over-stimulating the economy in the short-term at the cost of future growth, not to mention that it incentivizes the government to keep interest rates low (as high rates worsen the debt burden).
In other words, Republicans should be very careful about having their energy dissipated by a series of diversionary battles over short-run spending bills.
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Five years ago he was his campaign manager, then his prime minister, but the two men fell out over the big-spending ways of Mr Wade's son.
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His bill aims to introduce a Welfare Cash Card to encourage responsible spending by benefit claimants, and it mainlines right into the current row over welfare spending - and the strivers vs skivers meme that Conservatives are campaigning on.
We hear stories about these home-bound, over-age young adults spending their days on the couch, rent-free, unemployed, and seemingly un-motivated to do otherwise.
Ronald Reagan was said to be a small government type, non-defense discretionary spending somewhat reflected his desires over two terms, but the Democratic-led House voted for deficit spending on an annual basis.
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The fifty-one Conservative House Democrats known as the Blue Dogs forced a reduction in the over-all amount of spending.
He can encourage his boss to play the veto card for the first time and pick a showy fight with Congress over some pork-stuffed spending bill.
Calls for a mass walk-out over spending cuts have grown in recent months, with the TUC Congress voting in September to look into the practicalities of organising one.
This aimed to wring just over 4% of GDP out of the public finances a bit over two-thirds from spending cuts and the rest in tax increases by 2014-15.
The NAO report added that the MoD's spending over-commitments led to it having to renegotiate and delay contracts, which was "destabilising" and "leads to significant increases in costs".
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Insurance overhead and billing costs consume over one-third of spending.
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