Citations:spendocrat

English citations of spendocrat

Noun: "(informal, derogatory, sometimes used attributively) a politician or bureaucrat viewed as supporting excessive spending"

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• 1959, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 105, Part 15, page 19878:

  The members of the spendocrat wing can point to the big bill they pushed through the Senate.

• 1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer (1963), page 17:

  While Washington "spendocrats," of both parties, have spent and wasted more than 100 billion dollars in so-called foreign aid, […]

• 1963, Telephone Engineer & Management, Volume 67, page 47:

  Not AT&T, nor even our governmental spendocrats, can afford to toss satellites into space indefinitely and write them off when a faulty transistor or a coy contact puts them out of commission.

• 1965, Modern Railroads, Volume 19, Part 2, page 19:

  He blames "liberal spendocrats" for using railroad taxes to build free waterways, for using public money for pork barrel.

• 1968, Official Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Republican National Congres, page 364:

  The past eight years we have been drifting on a sea of indecision, misguided and misled by a spendocrat administration.

• 1970, Let's Talk Politics: A Nonpartisan Publication of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, page 22:

  The choice before Indiana voters is whether to turn back to the decaying, spendocrat New Deal philosophy that has borne such bitter and divisive fruit; […]

• 1979, Gary Allen, Tax Target: Washington, '76 Press (1979), →ISBN, page 18:

  The spendocrat Congressmen who try to hide their records from the angry folks back home claim that the fault for ever-rising federal budgets is with defense spending.

• 1980, Editorials on File, Volume 11, Part 2, page 1277:

  If he's not careful, and assuming that most of his constituents pay a reasonable amount of attention to his performance, he could find himself marching as badly out of step as the liberal "spendocrat" he deposed.

• 2005, Alan S. Ferguson, The Dummy, AuthorHouse (2005), →ISBN, page 299:

  These taxaholic spendocrats see no end to your money.

• 2012, James Liberty, F. R. E. E. D. O. M.: Essays on America's Fight for Freedom, iUniverse (2012), →ISBN, page 38:

  Spendocrats, I mean Democrats, are willing to pass bills that will cause economic hardship just so that they can show their base that they did it — pandering for votes.

• 2014, Gerard DeGroot, Back in Blighty: The British at Home in World War One, Vintage (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Groups like the Anti-Waste League warned that a rapacious and uncontrollable 'spendocrat' bureaucracy would destroy fragile prosperity.