(If this seems dull and dreary, it’s because it’s the Introduction to a short monograph I’m preparing about the lack of effective funding on the Right to combat the Left. I had to write it anyway.) In the inquiry that…
Category: Teachings
The Mob Next Time
“God said a fire, not a flood next time… (from “Well. Well, Well,” Negro spiritual) I’m not Ann Coulter’s biggest fan. We are separated by 20 years of a kind of snark that doesn’t come easy to me. But she…
Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV
This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European Union and Wisconsin tells us that… Bureaucracy kills. And it kills totally. And when it’s not…
America, The Fly in Government Employment’s Buttermilk, Part II
This is Part II of our History of Government Employment. In Part I we established that government employment, mostly armed to the teeth, has been around for thousands of years longer than government. We also learned that since Thag, King…
Let’s Be Clear, Most Public Employees are Not “Workers”
Did anyone ever call an airline pilot a “worker?” How about an actor, a member of the Screen Actors Guild? OK, these are both private sector professionals in unions. But how a cop? Is a cop a “worker”? A fireman?…