He sees almost literal "pigs" who have grown fat at the public trough.
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Oddly enough, when a legislator's district benefits from the public trough, things get done.
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True, much of that money is spent by people who want to feed from the public trough.
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"Randy Levine was a leading socialist when it came to feeding at the public trough," he said.
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President-elect Trump promised to wean Planned Parenthood off the public trough, as long as they are in the abortion business.
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Both groups are self-interested parties attempting to feed at the public trough although the politicians seem less oblivious to their true nature.
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Still, Ms. Carmena is credited with bringing a refreshingly frugal management style to a city administration that had grown accustomed to feasting at the public trough.
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Mr. Price — a multimillionaire orthopedic surgeon who as a congressman took actions that benefited his personal stock portfolio — isn't the only Trump cabinet member polluting the public trough.
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The state-of-the-art battle provides an opportunity for owners whose stadiums have yet to reach legal drinking age to go back to the public trough when they've barely wiped their faces clean from the first visit.
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A game of chicken has ensued, as the president has pretty well held his following in the country against the frenzied assault of his massed media enemies, while three-quarters of Americans despise the Congress as tainted and ineffectual windbags wallowing in the public trough.
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"Rather than follow through on an earlier Congressional commitment to reimburse states for the costs of issuing Build America Bonds, which were used to jumpstart our Great-Recession-decimated economy, Congress instead wants to allow our nation's wealthiest tycoons to feed deeper at the public trough," California Treasurer John Chiang said in a statement.
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Thad Cochran, Republican from Mississippi, had hoped for a retirement present after 40 years in the Senate in the form of a flood-control project known as the Yazoo Pumps, a bad idea that has been kicking around for decades and would drain 200,000 acres of wetlands in the Mississippi Delta so that soybean farmers, who have drunk liberally from the public trough, could plant more crops.
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Paul opposes the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 and has called it a "dangerous piece of legislation".Paul, Rand. The Public Trough. The American Conservative.
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His abhorrence of the government did not prevent Burroughs from using its programs to his own advantage. In 1949 he enrolled in Mexico City College under the GI Bill, which paid for part of his tuition and books and provided him with a seventy-five- dollar-per-month stipend. He maintained, "I always say, keep your snout in the public trough." Burroughs was a gun enthusiast and owned several shotguns, a Colt .
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Grey was not shy about tossing verbal barbs at the governing Liberals. She called Jean Chrétien "the Shawinigan Strangler", Don Boudria "Binder Boy", Jane Stewart "Miss Management" and Paul Martin "Captain Whirlybird". Deborah Grey is also well known for refusing to join the lucrative MP Pension Plan and ridiculing other "MP porkers" for feeding at the public trough. Later she bought her way back into the pension plan resulting in former Prime Minister Joe Clark labeling her the "high priestess of hypocrisy".
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