This government will never penalise the banks for irresponsible lending because its policies are bankrolled by irresponsible borrowing.

His inaugural address was peppered with pointed references to the "irresponsible borrowing and runaway spending" of his predecessors.

His inaugural address alluded to what he called the irresponsible borrowing and runaway spending during the eight years Republicans held the governor's office.

Given the wide spectrum of groups surveyed for this article, one can only conclude that most government expenditures are in fact needed, and therefore that tax cuts are a deeply irresponsible borrowing from the next generation.

Yesterday, he reaffirmed, "The days of irresponsible borrowing and runaway spending are over."

It does not suggest that foreign banks caused the crisis, which most economists believe had its origins in irresponsible borrowing by Asian countries themselves.

The government allowed irresponsible borrowing by allowing, for example, people to have 5 times mortgages.

The Greek situation is a combination of irresponsible borrowing and irresponsible lending.

Labour just postponed unemployment with irresponsible borrowing.

The irresponsible borrowing and spending has to end - if only for the sake of our children and grandchildren who will have to pay it back.