In the United States, there are recovery groups for alcoholics, drug addicts, sex addicts, overeaters, overspenders, and numerous other subgroups with unique recovery needs. ❋ Jack Watts (2011)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy headed to a two-day EU summit in Brussels seeking to strip EU voting rights from repeat overspenders and allow for an orderly default of highly indebted countries, measures that would require an arduous effort to change the basic EU treaty. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
President Bush and the Republicans were crazy overspenders, President Obama and the Democrats even worse. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But it could if the central government rewarded states that have well-run development programs with grants and punished chronic overspenders by refusing to bail them out. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And Republicans depict Democrats as decadent overspenders. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Princess, in which she counsels spoiled overspenders on how to grow up and take control of their finances. ❋ Unknown (2011)
At the same time, the new treaty - which is likely to introduce more automatic sanctions for overspenders and force states to include debt brakes into their national constitutions - will draw the 17 country eurozone much closer together. ❋ Unknown (2011)
What I see in the British press, from Eurosceptic politicians and indeed from saloon-bar politicians is a lot of smarmy gloating that the Greeks got themselves into this mess by being profligate overspenders. ❋ Michael White (2011)
That conclusion is that the eurozone should establish a common Treasury with the power to raise funds and discipline overspenders as France and Germany did to Ireland, but not each other, in the zone's early days; that it reinforces common supervision of banks, their regulation and insurance, and that it creates a common growth plan to promote economic convergence and pay down the debt via growth, not mere retrenchment. ❋ Michael White (2011)
We were all profligate overspenders pre-crisis, and Greece's problem was hugely compounded by speculative bond traders short-selling against the Greek economy. ❋ Michael White (2011)
The producer-savers in northern Europe are now drawing up a new deal with the overspenders - the PIIGS: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. ❋ By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (2011)
He has said that even the new legislation is not strong enough for the 17 euro countries, since states could still override penalties for overspenders. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But Merkel did call for accelerated European integration through a fiscal union, or a pact that could ultimately see nations like Italy, Spain, France and Germany effectively forfeit full independence over national budgets and potentially give their neighbors the right to slap penalties on overspenders. ❋ Anthony Faiola (2011)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to amend the EU treaty to make it possible to deny persistent overspenders 'EU voting rights. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whatever the final option, eurozone politicians will be keen to avoid a situation of moral hazard whereby chronic overspenders like Greece appear to be getting off easy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
