misspends

If the rest of the population had a bit more skin in the game, the people as a whole would be more sensitive to how the government spends (or misspends) our money, and maybe a bit more vocal about the problems of runaway spending.

Beggaring the Rich Won't Help Society Society 2009

Each man misspends his youth skulking in the shadow of a powerful father, resentful of the patriarch's success and yet eager for his approval.

‘Night, Not-So-Sweet Prince 2008

First, government taxes away earnings and savings and then misspends the money.

Governing in the 21st Century: the Mike Harris Government and Lessons from Ontario 2000

Virgil, in the heat of action—suppose, for example, in describing the fury of his hero in a battle, when he is endeavoring to raise our concernments to the highest pitch—turns short on the sudden into some similitude, which diverts, say they, your attention from the main subject, and misspends it on some trivial image.

Dedication Vergil 1909

The philosopher, who misspends it very often as much as the others, joins in the same cry, and authorizes this impiety.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887

"There's more disillusionment, people think we're overpaid, and when a politician misspends, we're all painted with the same brush."

Toronto Sun 2010

Let's return to the kind of scandal where government misspends taxpayers 'dollars to boost their electoral fortunes.

Green Party of Canada - Parti vert du Canada 2010

Let's return to the kind of scandal where government misspends taxpayers 'dollars to boost their electoral fortunes.

Green Party of Canada - Parti vert du Canada Elizabeth May 2010

Traffic regulator misspends R144m zz Task team probes irregularities

IOL: News 2010

Question: "How come taxpayers get so mad at businesses who misspend their money but can't make that connection when Congress misspends their money?"

FreedomDogs.com - Your Minnesota Headquarters for Conservative Thought 2009