thelobbyist » NRO http://thelobbyist.net Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:20:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Government Employees & Salaries Growing http://thelobbyist.net/lobby/archives/2360 http://thelobbyist.net/lobby/archives/2360#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:49 +0000 Dustin Siggins http://thelobbyist.net/?p=2360 The Washington Examiner and NRO, among others, criticize the growing number of employees on the government roll. I think the NRO piece does a better job of going after the real problem covered in the USA TODAY- not that the government is adding employees (yes, it’s a problem, but let’s allow the liberals to do their Depression-era employment strategy until the recession ends) but that in 18 months the number of Department of Transportation employees making $170,000 or more has gone from one (uno, a singular individual, whatever you want to call it) to over 1,600. That’s quite a jump, and it’s not the the only excessive pay jump analyzed at all three links above.

Of course, the same people adding to the government rolls (i.e., Democrats) killed the D.C. Voucher Program recently, even though it not only saves millions of taxpayer dollars but also educates its students- poor minorities, by and large- better than the horrific D.C. public school system. The Washington Post has the depressing story.

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