no funds or insufficient funds....or we can't afford this or that.....that is after all their pet projects are covered.

It is not their money.
They have no budget to be measured against.
They have no accountability or responsibility to see the funds are spent appropriately.
Many cannot account for where monies paid went and for what.
And best of all they are under no fear of reprisal as all politicians subscribe to circling the wagons to protect their own (and of course themselves).

They are the entitled....why else would people like that spend millions of dollars to get elected or re-elected. Sometimes their own money....millions.
Why? For the prestige of the job?
To answer duty calls and represent the will of the people

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