How will you get to New York at this rate?

It is the price of past profligacy.

Then he asked, Why should China sacrifice our growth so that the West can continue to be profligate and stupid?

We fully agree that it is necessary to minimize waste and streamline operations.

Duplication must be avoided, costs drastically cut, waste radically reduced, and corruption abolished.

We must combat administrative waste wherever it exists, without hesitating to punish any abuses that may be uncovered.

We therefore need to ensure that there is no wasteful duplication of effort or unhealthy competition on the ground.

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There is a need to check waste and to review government priorities to ensure that resources are devoted to essential needs rather than luxurious living for government officials.

The rapid application of new technology and changes in consumption are needed to check extravagant consumption of natural and environmental resources.

Theological language that might have decried the credit crunch as the wages of sin, a come uppance for prodigious profligacy, has become unusable.

It is deficit reduction, not debt, that is profligate, because it implies wastage of available human and physical capital, quite apart from the resulting misery.

While Solomon Islands shares this vision, it counsels against extravagance, waste and mere symbolistic ceremonials which do not reflect long term substantive benefits.

But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

Establishing such an Office would send a strong signal to the taxpayers of Member States and their elected representatives that the United Nations was serious about rooting out waste and improving its effectiveness, and therefore deserved their financial support.

Hopefully, two features could become increasingly apparent in such regional mechanisms First, each region would be as large as possible, in order to ensure against wasteful duplication and inequity and to encourage efficiency.

7. Mr. BOIN (France) said that his delegation obviously was sensitive to appeals to eliminate waste and also understood the reasons which prompted the Under Secretary General to request the assistance of Member States.

Thanks to the profligacy of the current Bush administration (and the prudence of the Clinton administration), average Federal spending as a proportion of GDP under Republican presidents now exceeds that under Democrats during the measured period.

As well, the profligate behaviour of the central Government between September 1989 and June 1993 had resulted in an unmanageable deficit, precipitously declining reserves and imprudent short term, high interest foreign borrowing.

It considered that the Organization should keep its activities within the limits of the established budget appropriations, by controlling expenses, improving management, avoiding all forms of waste and using the resources available to it as profitably and rationally as possible.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary. But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

This augmented news reports about Greek profligacy, and thus closed a negative feedback loop by attracting intensifying public interest, which eventually fueled crises in other European countries.

Suggestions ranging from storage to transport, from the adoption of an optical disc system to the management of buildings, from staff costs and human resources in the Secretariat to travel expenses have been made by JIU on different occasions as a contribution to fight waste and reduce expenses.

To call these people s ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.