Today, we're talking about a national debt incurred by unnecessary, squanderous spending: useless grants, pork-barrel projects, swollen bureaucracies, handouts to the undeserving and foreign aid for population control.

One example of swollen bureaucracy: a purchase order required 24 signatures with a copy going to each person.

When they could not obtain work, either because they lacked useful skills or because the swollen bureaucracy had no openings available, they would invariably blame their bad luck on Jews.

To the Editor: Discussion of President Clinton's health care proposal has generated alarm about swollen bureaucracies.

In other words, the swollen bureaucracy has grown so as to necessitate an entire new office building.

They included decontrolling prices, liberalizing foreign trade, trimming back the swollen bureaucracy, freezing government jobs and salaries, and selling Zambia's limited amount of hard foreign currency to the highest bidder.

In defending the cuts, Mr. Giuliani has portrayed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a swollen bureaucracy with higher-than-necessary executive salaries and too many well-heeled private consultants.

He argued that "a colossal administrative apparatus" would impede production, indeed that a swollen bureaucracy might be the embryo of a new ruling class.

It has become, outside the military and space sectors, stagnant and encrusted, run by a swollen bureaucracy that pervades the pores of the society.

As the largest single party organization in the country, with twenty-five million members, the Labor Front became a swollen bureaucracy, with tens of thousands of full-time employees.