Instead of correcting market failures, federal subsidies misallocate resources and introduce government failures into the marketplace.
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There are mistakes upon mistakes that in the end led to one of the biggest government failures ever.
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Shadow leader of the Lords Baroness Royall declined to push the matter to a vote but attacked the government for failures on the economy and on social policy.
Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, recently spoke of his regrets about the British government's failures during the Irish potato famine in the 1840s.
Failures of government aside, the private sector hasn't done much better in abating obesity.
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First, doing so enables him to divert his people's attention away from his government's economic failures.
In fact, in almost every case of bank problems or failures, government regulators have been the last people to know.
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Unfortunately, in light of the Olmert government's own failures to contend with the growing threats to Israel's security, it is difficult to imagine its members acting in such a constructive and prudent manner.
Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.
"The government found systemic KBR failures to properly ground and bond facilities -- failures that contributed to theater personnel receiving shocks in KBR maintained facilities on average once every three days" between September 2006 and July 31, 2008, the detailed report says.
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But when I spoke to the former West Midlands minister, the Labour MP for Dudley North Ian Austin, he told me what most people would notice in the Autumn Statement was the further erosion of their living standards because of the Government's economic failures: the squeeze on their benefits and continuing year-on-year cuts to local services.
Lord Henley did not accept that characterisation, saying it was "a bit rich" for Labour to accuse the government of poor standards on border security as some of the failures acknowledged in Mrs May's statement "were failures of the party opposite when in government".
The president, Ma Ying-jeou, apologised for the perceived failures of the government's rescue effort.
The government, desperate to avoid failures, instructed banks to prop up large firms.
And the U.S. government has sued contractors for failures including developing a power plant in Kabul and providing security guards in Iraq.
The Japanese government, for all its failures, did the right thing in evacuating Fukushima Prefecture quickly and by preventing contaminated food and water from being consumed.
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Partly in response to these failures, the government announced on April 1st that it would restructure the armed forces, placing the police under a separate command.
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And it should not be forgotten that much of the centralisation under the Tories was a direct response to the failures of local government in the post-war years.
They point to the intransigence of the current Argentine government and to the previous failures of the country's political leaders to curb their fiscal imprudence during the 1990s.
She said she was "afraid that the Welsh government is being informed by failures rather than successes, " and said it needed to be "very careful not to over-react to some of the scandal".
Murdo Fraser, the deputy Tory leader, said the whole government was to blame for education failures.
But he does not propose that the federal government should intervene to correct those failures another striking policy difference between the two candidates.
However disgruntled they are with the everyday failures of the communist government, few Cubans dare brave the harassment meted out to active opponents.
But steep falls in the value of Italian or Spanish government debt risk a wave of bank failures.
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More important for those who were bothered by the recent bank bailouts, failures among firms outside the government's umbrella will be allowed.
The Lib Dem motion which said the SNP government has presided over a series of failures on a range of education issues was passed in amended form.
Jim Jones and top homeland security adviser John Brennan, took place shortly before the president delivered public remarks suggesting there were "systemic and human failures" that prevented the government from stopping the attempted terror attack.
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Blanco, 63, a first-term Democrat from Lafayette who has been in office less than two years, conceded "there were failures at every level of government, state, federal and local, " in the response to the disaster.
Asghar Bukhari, of the UK Muslim Public Affairs Committee, described the attack as shocking, but said there had been failures by both the UK government and the Muslim community when it came to tackling extremism in Britain.
Political consultant Oswaldo Ramirez, who is advising the Capriles campaign, said the candidate must strike a balance between criticizing the failures of Chavez's government and Maduro's role in it, without being seen as attacking the late president.
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