Hardworking, honest citizens chafe at corrupt officials who treat them with contempt and get rich quick.
It is also acquiring new powers of oversight. Politicians could chafe at the Fed's power: why, they might ask, should unelected officials choose who benefits from taxpayers' money?
But they chafe at the plan to shift the Fed's consumer-protection functions, which protect people from deceptive and unfair lending practices, to a new agency.
Electorates are likely to chafe at the cost of bringing down government deficits, especially if the main result is to repay foreign creditors.
But I chafe at the idea that great American debates, in all their ugliness and splendor, should be tempered for terrorists and their attempts to recruit.
Hardworking, honest citizens chafe at corrupt officials who treat them with contempt and get rich quick. And the party still makes an ass of the law and a mockery of justice.
In these discussions, I find that many chafe at the word "best" because it seems to imply arrogance and elitism — as if I am saying that my practices are better than anyone else's.
