Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 18, 2009

The economy is collapsing and unemployment is mounting. Yet there is a class of Americans who are prospering: The so-called ?public servants? employed by government at every level.

As Steven Greenhut documents in his indispensable new book Plunder, government employees ?are a specially treated class of citizen?.Private employees ? in a down economy, work far later into life before retiring, while public employees retire far earlier ? 15-20 years earlier, in some cases.? Americans who have seen their retirement accounts wiped out will be forced to pay for the retirement plans of their supposed servants in government.

Rather than being poor but honest public servants, Greenhut writes, many government employees ?are made instant millionaires just for taking a job and sticking with it.? Greenhut also exposes scams whereby bureaucrats frequently receive a salary for one job while drawing a tax-paid pension from a previous one.

As St. Augustine would observe, the government ruling us is one vast band of robbers.

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