Once politicians decide they like the buzz of campaign contributions, they'll turn into junkies with ordinary Americans footing the bill.
In both cases, those ultimately stuck with the bill are ordinary Indonesians.
Bill Clinton did something ordinary: he had an affair and lied about it.
The Obamacare bill is something that no ordinary citizen could possibly read and understand.
The amount converted is taxed as ordinary income, meaning a potentially large tax bill would be due the following April.
For instance, the proposal to treat dividends as ordinary income has met resistance in a Senate bill passed that would call to raise such rates to just 20% on higher-income taxpayers, well short of the rate on ordinary income.
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When a company buys back stock instead of paying a dividend, the stock value appreciates by the like amount of the dividend and long-term shareholders get a 50% savings on their tax bill (assuming a 40% ordinary income tax rate versus a 20% long term capital gains rate).
The most energy-intensive consumers are shielded from the feed-in tariff, leaving ordinary folk, including pensioners and the unemployed, to foot the bill.
But the main focus of attention is bound to be the United Auto Workers union, which is loathed not just by those Senate Republicans whose refusal to vote for a bail-out bill forced Mr Bush to act, but by many ordinary Americans in less well-paid, less secure employment.
Mr Chope told MPs it was a misuse of a private bill to extend the powers of local authorities "at the expense of ordinary citizens in London" when it was not being done elsewhere in the country.
Unlike ordinary mortals, he can move in and out of stocks and bonds without an annual tax bill cutting his returns.
Neither George Bush, nor Bill Clinton before him, has used the bully pulpit effectively to make the case for trade liberalisation to ordinary Americans.
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