Via COAST and the Washington Examiner, according to a Rasmussen poll, even government workers admit (46-32) that government workers don’t work as hard as the rest of us. (The original Rasmussen report is apparently here, but full article available only with subscription.)
Note that federal-government employees are also paid a lot better for their lackluster work.
Robert Tracinski explains a structural problem with (and leading to) Obamacare, and the welfare state generally:
. . . when the government bestows its largess, we tend [to] see only the benefits coming down from above: there are press releases and newspaper articles and a lady writes an op-ed in the LA Times. What we don’t see is where that money came from and who it came from, and what else we might have done with that money. Read the rest of this entry »
Enjoyment and Contemplation 