Posted on 12/11/2009 11:52:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Not to mention the fact that your retirement plan, guaranteed to pay regularly with annual cost of living increases until the day you die, includes people with guns to go collect your monthly stipend from people who actually produce wealth.
anything to grow gubermint.
bump
Remember, we exist only to support them
know your role and shut your hole...just keep payin your taxes, serf!
sincerely,
King Barry
I remember when Clinton was president he hired 1,000 people in DC by a stroke of the pen. Entry level civil service workers, many were sent to work at Walter Reed. They had a cubical and sat around all day talking on the phone and playing on a computer. That was more than 10 years ago, by now they have been promoted because it is a right and are likely making much more that the average American.
February 6, 1992
Despite the defeat of the August 19 August 21 Communist coup in Moscow most of the officials on the local level are former Communist bureaucrats, who are hostile to free market reforms and have excellent connections with bureaucrats of similar background on the national level. They are there because it is impossible to change the entire staff of local and central bureaucracies in the few months that have passed since August.
Local government officials are opposed to free market reforms because they threaten their control over the local economy. Once real privatization occurs, no one would need bureaucrats to manage the economy, and local government power over the population would be much more limited, as it is in the West.
...or like the West used to be.
Let’s not forget many Freepers work for the government in some capacity. Don’t put all of them in one boat.
Salaries are all over the map. In some jobs, they’re excessive, but in others they’re quite low.
What the so-called "progressives" "regressives" never explain as they create this monster employer called "government," is that their "jobs" are wealth-absorption jobs; whereas, jobs in the productive, private sector are wealth-creation jobs.
That is why the private sector should not let politicians co-opt their wealth-creation role in the society by accepting tax dollars as so-called "incentives." Once they do, they become participants in the rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scam which serves to shrink the economy and increase the coercive power and wealth of unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats in government.
Is it not telling that Adam Smith was a "moral philosopher" whose publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" coincided with America's Declaration of Independence and became the basis of the greatest explosion of personal liberty, opportunity, innovation, and goods and services ever known to man?
Far Left (those who call themselves "progressive") politicians are fond of studying "poverty." What a waste! If they were serious about relieving poverty, they would, like Smith, be studying "wealth creation" and "individual liberty."
Sadly, their objective is neither relieving poverty nor pursuing liberty. It is as old as the history of civilization: it is accumulation of coercive power in the hands of a political elite.
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I think they all get the same benefits. Originally the wages were low because the benefits off-set the wages.
I just had a friend come back from the Beltway after a visit and could not believe the way folks were spending, spending, spending.
She lived and worked in DC during the 90’s and now lives in Florida. Even as a Lib she had to admit that DC is out of touch with the rest of the Country.
Honestly I think the cost of living in DC drives it (and conversely the salaries drive cost of living) since benefits don’t pay the mortgage - the salaries increased.
This article is totally bogus. 70K in the Wash DC area and you’re barely cutting it.
I’d gladly trade my 100K job in DC with a 50-60K job in a less expensive, less congested, less polluted, less illegal immigrant area of the country any day of the week.
HOWEVER, this is where the jobs are.
try living in the DC metro area on an ‘average’ American salary.
Guaranteed my taxes will go to paying your food stamps and subsidized housing allowance.
GUARANTEED.
Really, what’s the average salary of the Gov. contractor? Everyone seems to forget that a substantial part of the American work force in total are working on some kind of local, state, federal contract.
now add that to your calculations.
Again, this article is bogus.
Really, what’s the average salary of the Gov. contractor? Everyone seems to forget that a substantial part of the American work force in total are working on some kind of local, state, federal contract.
now add that to your calculations.
Again, this article is bogus.
face the facts.....SS might be a ponzi scheme and unethical and unsustainable but look at the govt workers.....
they'll be taking every penny we peasants make to pay them....
I won't do it...
maybe the mafia had it right all along....
we're fools to think we have anything to gain in this new America.....
obey laws?...pay taxes?...be a good citzen?...WHY?
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