More Outrage (Surprise Surprise!) : Washington Having Its Best Year Ever at Your Expense

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Consider this outrage: Last summer, internships in D.C. paid city youths for essentially doing nothing. The government gave several hundred disadvantaged kids "internships" to come and learn about politics and the capital. They were supposed to show up every day, check in, and shadow some politicos. Apparently, over the whole summer, only a couple showed up out of hundreds, yet they all got paid. Imagine the lessons they learned. It's a mockery of the ethics of hard work and responsibility.

But it gets worse. The newspaper USA Today reports that before the recession started, the Department of Transportation employed only one person earning more than $170,000 a year. (I might argue even one is too many). Today, more than 1,690 people there earn more than $170,000.

That's not a typo... In 18 months, the government has increased the number of people in one federal department making more than $170,000 by hundreds of thousands of percent. While the average American worries about making ends meet, these federal bureaucrats are taking more and more of our tax dollars. Moreover, I don't understand how there needs to be more than a few people at the Department of Transportation making that kind of money, yet there are thousands of them.

Look, the average federal worker makes $71,206 versus $40,331 in the private sector. I think this is absurd. And the counterargument from the government affairs director at a federal employees union is laughable. It's "because the government employs skilled people," he told the USA Today.

Folks, please listen... This nonsense will lead to higher and higher taxes. Unless we tell people in power to stop the nonsense immediately, things will go from bad to worse really quickly. I can't spend more than I earn. Neither can you. What makes lazy government bureaucrats think it works differently when they're spending someone else's money?

I encourage you to do what I do and write your local and national elected officials and tell them to stop spending our hard-earned money and start cutting taxes so people can get back to work. And also remember in upcoming election cycles to vote for people who will be fiscally responsible (we'll try and keep track of this for the 2010 elections). Sitting around and doing nothing about it is simply condoning the behavior.


11 COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...
If you are 40+ thank your lucky stars for a decent life. If you are in your 20s you can look forward to hell.

December 19, 2009 4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
You can look forward to grinding poverty. Unless you hire on with the federal government.

December 19, 2009 4:32 PM
Anonymous said...
This is the kind of $#!^ that is going to lead to the "unrest" described in the previous post.
Keep it up, bozos...

December 19, 2009 4:40 PM
Anonymous said...
i agree 4:16....... those newlyweds of 2010, i pity them...( and us too...), but especially being a young couple starting out... its a shame.

December 19, 2009 5:45 PM
Anonymous said...
We are all; just amazing. We worry about all this trivial bullshit; most of which ain't here and best of all; probably never will be. I have news for the masses --- ain't nuthin' new under the sun folks - we been there done that. If you have your health; please enjoy your life - if you don't - please do what you can to be as healthy as you can. When you get right down to it people ----- EVERYTHING else is just so much
----- stuff ------ !!! I happen to have my GREAT grandfathers daily diary ( Circa 1883 ) it would really amaze you the crap that made him fret; day in - day out. Most of which you could merely substitute the date & you'd swear we were in a time warp - same shit ---- different day !!!! ENJOY --- your only here for a short while !!!

December 19, 2009 5:59 PM
Anonymous said...
Save newspaper clippings. If your grand kids are around in the future you can show them a photo album of when America died. This ain't 1883.

December 19, 2009 8:51 PM
Anonymous said...
I have heard many times, government employees described as "servants of the people". I have always wondered when it was ever proper for "servants" to earn more than their "masters"...

December 19, 2009 9:16 PM
Everybody Print Money said...
Stupid sheep slaves for $40,331.

Federal foxes get $71,206.

So far this year, my gang and I have photocopied more than $300,000 free money and spent discreetly.

December 19, 2009 11:16 PM
Anonymous said...
5:59, I'm not sure what planet you're on but let's not sugar coat the situation.

December 20, 2009 12:34 AM
Anonymous said...
Tax revenues are down due to all the unemployed not paying taxes and the cuts in hours at work for those still employed. This cannot continue. A breakdown is coming. There is just no way that a country with less taxes coming in can continue to pay these civil servants, especially since they make more than the private sector workers. Add to that the burden of government worker pensions. It's unsustainable.

December 20, 2009 12:37 AM
Anonymous said...
Not to mention Empire invasions and occupations; they cost a pretty penny


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