and is routinely abused the other way 'round, by people referring to perfectly good people trying to do something worthwhile for the public as “feeding at the public trough” and “wasting my perfectly good tax money.”
I don’t mind ridiculing this idiot congressperson, but try to see that there is such a thing as “public service.” I don’t know that a corporation is going to come along and shut down a company manufacturing bad prosthetic heart valves in the back of a Bed Bath and Beyond.
