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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I used to have lots of posts about TSA inefficiency and stupidity, but then I got discouraged and stopped. It seemed pointless to discuss the issue when there was no hope for improvement. I still think that’s the case, at least so long as Obama is in the White House...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
What’s the difference between a real job and working for the government? I used the think the answer was that bureaucrats are overpaid, usually for being in positions that shouldn’t even exist. Then I thought the difference was that bureaucrats got lavish benefits,...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education, Government Spending
I’ve had dozens of posts about overpaid bureaucrats. Indeed, I’ve largely stopped blogging about the topic because it is so depressing to constantly be reminded about how a privileged class of people is manipulating the system to coercively obtain undeserved...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Let’s start in Washington, where USA Today reports that there are “at least 17,828 federal employees whose annualized salaries totaled $180,000 or more in September 2010.” That’s rather distressing news for taxpayers, but these excerpts from the story provide...
