As Wisconsin Goes, so Goes the Nation

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

After dozens of posts about overpaid government employees, I’m sick of writing about the topic. But what’s happening in Wisconsin is critically important in the fight for long-run fiscal sanity, so I’m reluctantly wading back into this fight. Simply stated,...

The Federal Bureaucracy: Even More Bloated When You Count the “Shadow” Workforce

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy

Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has put together a very depressing column for National Review. To put it bluntly, he exposes the true size of the federal workforce, which has 5.5 hidden employees for every official bureaucrat. Officially, as of...

Two Recent TSA Decisions Will Make Flying a More Miserable Experience in the Future

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs

I’m sick of the TSA and haven’t written about that incompetent bureaucracy since posting a mock press release early last month. But after enduring the slowest-moving line in recorded history at the Miami Airport yesterday, motivation is no longer a problem. So it was...

Assuming We Can Stop Obama from Giving another Federal Bailout, the Gravy Train May Have Ended for State and Local Bureaucrats

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs

This blog repeatedly has chronicled the huge discrepancy between the gold-plated compensation for government employees and the meager salaries and benefits of people in the productive sector of the economy, including a video conclusively demonstrating that bureaucrats...

Local Government Stupidity Contest

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2010 | Blogs, Political Correctness, Society

This post could be entitled, “So many dumb bureaucrats, so little time,” but let’s have some fun and turn it into a contest. Which bone-headed decision by a local government best exemplifies mindless bureaucracy, politically correct nonsense, and government waste?...