Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 28, 2009

While the national economy collapses, there is one region that is booming. Average household income continues to rise in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Those communities are inhabited by federal employees , whose jobs are secure and whose salaries continue to rise even amid a terrifying economic decline.

Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute points out that the average federal civilian employee is paid twice the amount that was earned by the average private sector worker -- a little more than $106,000 per year, as compared to an annual salary of $56,000. These radical, artificial disparities in wealth will expand as so-called stimulus spending increases, thereby putting more people on the government payroll.

Government spending adds nothing to the real wealth and productivity of the economy. An economy in which government functionaries prosper and the productive starve is one destined for immediate extinction.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has set us free.