by Brian Garst | Jul 28, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The federal government fires so few of it’s workers that bureaucrats at a number of agencies are more likely to die in office than get a pink slip: Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs — is the primary threat to job security at the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Walter Williams has pointed out on many occasions that many government programs and initiatives exist primarily for the benefit of the bureaucracy, and he coined the phrase “poverty pimps” to describe the folks who get comfortable government jobs to operate programs...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Regulations
Or is it another example of the “wussification of America?” I don’t know how to classify this story, other than it is a sad commentary on what is happening to America. Bureaucrats in Maryland, who obviously have too much time on their hands, are issuing rules...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Regular readers know that I don’t have high regard for government. I’m willing to believe just about anything bad about politicians and bureaucrats, and I am not the least bit surprised when I hear horror stories about counterproductive government programs riddled...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve largely stopped beating up on the TSA because it seems like a dog-bites-man or sun-rises-in-the-east issue. Do we really learn anything by repetitively discussing the stupidity on one bureaucracy? But sometimes the idiocy reaches such an extreme level that it...
