by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
In the past, I’ve joked about “limousine liberals,” which is a phrase for elitist left wingers who pretend to identify with average people while living the good life. I’ve even mocked these folks on TV. But I always thought the term was symbolic. Not anymore. Here’s a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
All I can say is that I’m thankful the United States is not part of the European Union, at least if this little tidbit from the UK-based Telegraph is true. American politicians waste a lot of money, but even I doubt they ever spent tax dollars on something that is...
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 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote yesterday about the shocking case of a millionaire collecting food stamps. Today, I have an equally disgusting story of government waste. The Social Security program is actuarially bankrupt, with unfunded liabilities of several trillion dollars. Our topic...
by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
Not that we needed any additional evidence that the government wastes money in truly spectacular fashion, but this story from the Detroit Free Press is especially disgusting and outrageous. A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that...