Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You - Couverture rigide

Murray, Iain

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1596981539 ISBN 13 : 9781596981539

Editeur : Regnery, 2011

Synopsis

They’re Stealing Us Blind

Remember when we used to call government employees “public servants”? They’re servants no more—now they’re bureaucratic masters of the universe, claiming inflated salaries (up to two times as much as private sector employees) and early retirement with unparalleled pensions and benefits. And how do they spend their time? When they’re actually working, they spin red tape and regulations that make your life harder (and their lives easier), your taxes higher, and your share of the nation’s debt unsustainable.

Like true bureaucrats they like to scurry around in the dark, doing their mischief outside of public scrutiny. But no longer: Iain Murray—author of the rollicking exposé The Really Inconvenient Truths—knows all about bureaucrats and their lairs, because he used to be one himself. In Stealing You Blind he blows the whistle on the out-of-control bureaucracy whose greed could actually tip our country into a financial abyss.

In Stealing You Blind, you’ll discover:

• Why the wealthiest congressional district in America is in a recession-proof suburb of Washington, D.C.
  
• How the Department of Transportation went from having one employee making $170,000 or more to having nearly 1,700 making that much—during the peak of the recession
  
• Why even FDR thought federal workers shouldn’t be allowed to unionize
  
• How state, local, and federal bankruptcy could be coming your way thanks to public employee union greed
  
• Why bureaucrats regard taxpayers as sheep to be shorn—and how they do it
  
• Ten steps to fight back and regain control of our government from the parasitic bureaucratic class
  

Filled with devastating facts about how government workers are living large off the rest of us and driving our country to financial ruin, Stealing You Blind is a rousing call to reclaim our rights as taxpayers and save our economy from the bureaucrats who are choking it to death for their own benefit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Iain Murray is Vice President for Strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank that works to promote free markets and limited government. Murray also directs the Center for Economic Freedom at CEI. For the past fifteen years at CEI, Iain has written and lectured extensively on free markets and the environment, labor policy, finance, the EU, and trade. He tweets at @ismurray and is a Contributing Editor at Instapundit.com. Before coming to CEI, Iain was Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service. A
former civil servant in the United Kingdom, where he helped to privatize the railroad industry, Iain immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 and remains a British citizen. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of London and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He is married with two children and lives in Northern Virginia. Iain is a long-suffering fan of the Washington Redskins, Sunderland AFC, and the England cricket team. He likes to brew his own beer and play board and table-top games with friends.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

DID YOU KNOW?

• Before Obama s election, only one employee at the Federal Department of Transportation earned $170,000 or more; a year later, nearly 1,700 did
  
• The average Federal worker is paid double what his private sector counterpart earns
  
• One city administrator was paid $800,000 a year and wrote himself a pension plan paying $1 million a year
  
• Los Angeles spent $111 million in stimulus money to create 55 jobs
  
• And there s so much more...
  

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

DID YOU KNOW?

• Before Obama’s election, only one employee at the Federal Department of Transportation earned $170,000 or more; a year later, nearly 1,700 did
  
• The average Federal worker is paid double what his private sector counterpart earns
  
• One city administrator was paid $800,000 a year—and wrote himself a pension plan paying $1 million a year
  
• Los Angeles spent $111 million in stimulus money—to create 55 jobs
  
• And there’s so much more...
  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Regnery
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596981539
• ISBN 13: 9781596981539
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas