Tag Archives : Bureaucrats
A New Contestant in the Biggest-Obamacare-Lie Contest?
Just about everything we were told about Obamacare was a fib.
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Everything You Need to Know about France in a Single Story
No wonder the OECD is based in Paris.
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With a Remarkable Display of Transportation Double Dipping, French Civil Servant Earns a Spot in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame
Another foreign honoree for the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame
read more...Polls Finds Government Bureaucrats “Thriving” More Than Private Sector
Yet more evidence that the federal workforce is living on Easy Street.
read more...Overly Generous Fringe Benefits for Government Retirees Threaten Fiscal Survival of States and Localities
Living large at taxpayer expense.
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India’s Amazing No-Show Civil Servant Wins Membership in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame
This bureaucrat puts other freeloading slackers to shame.
read more...Can You Guess the Jurisdiction that Is Ending Special Pension Advantages for Government Bureaucrats?
It’s embarrassing that China is moving in the right direction while the U.S. is not.
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An Italian Doctor Joins the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame
In April of 2013, I introduced a Moocher Hall of Fame to “celebrate” some very odious examples of welfare dependency. Since that time, I keep thinking that it’s time to do something similar for government bureaucrats. This compilation from last December would be a good place to start, though I’d have to figure out whether to have group memberships so […]
read more...New Members of the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame…or a Great Moment in Government Waste
Which nation has the most costly bureaucracy? Well, if the answer is based solely on how much it costs to employ bureaucrats, you can see from this chart that Denmark comes in first place. As an American taxpayer, I’m glad to learn that there are other nations that squander more money on civil servants. But I get […]
read more...Everything You Need to Know about Government Bureaucracy
Since I’ve already created a Moocher Hall of Fame to acknowledge the strangest and most reprehensible examples of government dependency, it’s occurred to me that there also should be a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to highlight the government employees that have figured out how to most successfully rip off taxpayers (and here are some good candidates for charter membership). […]
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