(ECONOMICS) when a government has to restructure spending by massively cutting social programs, development programs, and subsidies on basic necessities. Often accompanied by taxes increases, especially on lower incomes (since the poor cannot escape tax hikes).
Usually we use the term "austerity program" when the government in question has to backtrack on its ideological commitments. An example of this is France, after June 1982. The Socialist government of Mitterrand had just implemented a raft of major new social welfare programs, and was promptly forced to cut everything back when the deficit ballooned.
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Company X instituted the latest of their Rectal Enlargement Programs (REP). This REP reduced employee pay and eliminated benefits, while reducing staffing and increasing workloads. This time they didn't even issue a jar of vaseline with it !
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To participate in meaningless activities, such as playing video games or Twitter, instead of mowing the grass when you know it really needs to be cut.
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Person: "Public education is important we need to support it."
Person 2: "But you send your kids to private schools. You're such a passive progressive."
Person 2: "But you send your kids to private schools. You're such a passive progressive."
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I'm a modern-day Sleeping Beauty, I don't believe Prince Charming will bring me back to life with a kiss (unless he's a first-aid worker); and in my experience the prince turns into a toad when you kiss him rather than the other way around. My idea of being good in bed isn't lying in bed for a hundred years waiting for Prince Charming to ride up on a white horse but I'll be happy if he turns up tomorrow in a convertible with red roses, chocolate and gorgeous stilettoes to take me out to dinner!
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