Indeed, the NSC has shown irresponsible disinterest in the whole matter of technology security, enormously compounding the risks of capricious decontrol actions -- and increasing the likelihood that they will occur.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Republicans, in turn, are painted as irresponsible zealots, willing to risk the future of Social Security in order to favour the rich.

ECONOMIST: Desperately seeking an agenda

And if some of them propose the full-scale privatisation of Social Security, this too will be attacked as an irresponsible bet on the economic future.

ECONOMIST: His own best case

Both in Israel and elsewhere, an articulate school of doubters believes that anti-missile systems are an irresponsible waste of money that can provide only a false sense of security.

ECONOMIST: Rockets overhead

Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Hyey Long.

CNN: A Debt-Threatened Dream

Sources tell CNN that Clinton will urge Congress to set aside the entire amount until lawmakers pass a plan to put Social Security on firmer financial footing, and tell them it would be irresponsible to pass any across-the-board tax cuts until a reform plan is in place.

CNN: State Of The Union

Others contended that this was hardly a preordained outcome and that cutting a program so vital to U.S. security strictly on financial grounds rather than with due regard to the relevant strategic considerations was irresponsible and possibly reckless.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Roundtable Discussion On The B-2 Bomber