Of course every person serving in an official capacity for the People promotes his/her self interests as if they were the interests of the People -- it cannot be otherwise. That's why their powers are to be strictly limited. And that applies to each and every one of us. Government has and always will live at the expense of the People. When we have finally cast out hatred, greed and self-righteousness, then there will be no need for government. But why we elect the most hateful, greedy, and self-righteous people to office, I will never understand -- I think it is because the People are exactly the same.