In an election year, with control of Congress in the balance, lawmakers from both parties are keen to spend lavishly, bail out airlines, suck up to steel firms and fatten the wallets of rich farmers.
"You don't fatten a hog by weighing it," he says, explaining why he opposes excessive testing in schools.
That is the Segway's transportation sweet-spot: distances that are too far to walk, but short enough that taking a huge sports-utility vehicle is overkill.Mr Torrone uses his Segway to do his grocery shopping, run local errands and fatten his bank account.
Relatively beefy growth in America has helped to fatten the greenback.
Mr Weerawansa should fatten himself up now while he has the chance.
The plan, explains Tristram Stuart, an environmental activist, is to show how useful recycled food-waste can be.This is the aim of the Pig Idea, a campaign to encourage farmers to fatten pigs on leftovers.
When people are poorer they may be less willing to support policies that will cost them money, but feel uncomfortable about jeopardising the planet's future to fatten their bank balance.
Once conditions are back to normal, and inflation returns, net interest margins will surely fatten again, he says.
She sat waiting in Leiden railway station until a strong-looking man inspected the name-card hung around her neck, said a decided "Ja", and took her away to join his family for a few months to fatten up.
Entire species of plants and trees are being sacrificed to fatten China's pigs.
Subsidy has allowed farmers to avoid thinking about how they might make a real living, and persuaded them to invest in land at inflated prices, thus burdening them with debts that they struggle to service.The countryside is angry with the government for arguing that the Common Agricultural Policy should shrink, and for refusing to fatten subsidies further at national level.
