There's probably also a touch of Milton Friedman's truism that “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as they spend their own. Nobody uses somebody e

There's probably also a touch of Milton Friedman's truism that “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as they spend their own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as they use their own”. I guess there are a few exceptions to 'nobody' but cynics would say that most politicians probably don't qualify.