Labor Day. I hate federal holidays. They are emblematic of what’s wrong with the Leviathan we call the federal government and the corrupting influence it has over American productivity. I hate the collective mentality. Every federal employee gets a paid day off, no matter how badly they suck. A better system would be one where if the employee didn’t work, he wouldn’t get paid. Getting something for nothing just divorces the apparatchik from the real world which pays his salary. I prefer a workforce in touch with America’s rugged individualism. We should be a nation of Marlboro men, not flabby bureaucrats. A number of years ago I found myself at a Starbucks in Fairfax City, Virginia at 7:30 in the morning. The line reminded me of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, a movie I watched in a college film class. Clearly, everyone in line was a federal worker driving into DC for their 9 to 4 job regulating the activities of the productive classes. I still have nightmares about what I saw. Everyone in line was an unsmiling, slothful moving, androgynous, slovenly dressed robot. It is next to impossible to fire one of these federal manatees. Health insurance and lifetime pensions are given to them. They need do nothing but show up for work each day. If you are wondering why so many federal agencies have been so easily weaponized under the Obama/Biden regime, why wouldn’t they be? They have a good gig. They have immense power and they don’t do jack. Threaten their fiefdom and they will retaliate.
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