It’s Friday, and that means another edition of Bureaucrats Behaving Badly.
The NDAI feature that’s the most fun for me, BBB highlights all the ways “public servants” have screwed up during the previous seven days. (Some are hilarious, others are downright disturbing.)
I oppose Big Government on moral grounds — libertarians embrace the non-aggression principle — and Big Government wouldn’t exist if not for the army of schlubby mediocrities on its payroll. Unable or unwilling to risk a job in the competitive, accountable sector, these hacks enjoy privileges most of us can only dream about — e.g., adamantine job security, lifetime pensions, gold-plated healthcare coverage, light workloads. But for many of them, that’s not enough. They’re comfortable grabbing even more from the cookie jar, regardless of whether it’s legal.
Plus, special treatment is the norm in government employment. In today’s edition of BBB, subscribers can learn about the top cop in Hazelwood, Missouri. A few months ago, he was pulled over, “hammered drunk,” and got “a ride home by another police chief rather than arrested.” According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the boozehound is being booted out, but “will receive retirement benefits and be paid for any unused time off.” He’ll “keep his service weapon ‘in lieu of a retirement party,’ be paid an additional month of wages upon retiring and keep his city-provided tablet.”
Such perks aren’t rare in “public service.” They’re the norm. Why taxpayers don’t rise up and put an end to the outrageous, and expensive, double standard, I shall never comprehend.
But fear not! I have made government employment my white whale. (It’s good to have a nemesis.) I eagerly and gleefully chronicle the Lalaland that is “work” in the coercion sector, hoping that one day, taxpayers wake up, and deliver a heavy dose of tough love to the parasites who loot the community fisc to line their pockets, avoid labor in the real world, and elude consequences for countless misdeeds.
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