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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 293 Government Employees
Description: Government employees are defined by the fact that taxpayers are responsible for their salaries, and they are not subject to feedback through Market Pressures. So many people work for government, almost 15% of the labor force, well over 20 million people, that it's a significant voting block, and acts like one, especially the union aspect. It's easy to understand how democracy is distorted when one group has the power to make everyone else pay for them, and it's easy to understand why the ideology of most government employees is socialist, because the jobs they do are socialist in nature, and they...