First reactions to Saudi Arabia's spending splurge have also been dismissive, to judge by social-media sites.
Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?
But if negotiations were already on track, Mr Netanyahu could point to them as reason-or pretext-to stop a new building splurge, while still keeping his pro-settler partners sweet.
I'm trying to justify it to myself by vowing it will be our last splurge.
"We may not be able to buy luxuries any more, but we can still splurge on small pleasures like chocolate," he laughs.
"Obviously you are not going to ask a country that has 400 million people without a lightbulb in their homes to do the same as a country that has splurge of energy, " he told the conference."
The alternative to a lending splurge is to try again to push global product lines.
You can wear the same great glasses every day, so you get the most bang for your buck when you splurge on them.
Thailand's new government is beginning a fiscal splurge, including generous purchases of rice from the country's farmers, that may prove better timed than it seemed when it was promised.
The government is trying to regain control of public finances after a splurge to win last year's election.
We'll splurge on a trip in France next year.
YET another bout of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations was launched this week amid a splurge of pious public talk tempered by sceptical punditry.
The drug also works as a splurge deterrent-the side effects are so unpleasant that you'll want to avoid fatty foods.
This has proven to be a somewhat reasonable and easy way to splurge every so often while making sure that we are wise stewards of what has been entrusted to us.
In fact, say analysts at HSBC, a bank, its Keynesian splurge is one of the world's least green.
The splurge was spurred by unprecedented discounts offered by retailers after sluggish pre-Christmas sales.
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