How's this for recession proof?
If you're the head of the Congressional committee that spends the tax-payer's money guess what! You get to bilk them for $700 bucks each month for a caddy AND you too (like the majority of President Obama's nominees) do not have to pay taxes on the commercial properties you own.
Go figure... it
PAYS to be a liberal partisan!
But then when one of your constituents comes up to you in the halls of Congress, and asks you about it you get to bleep him into next week: