America has moved toward becoming a feudal society like the tyrannical fiefdoms of yesteryear, with private households mired in poverty, debt and hopelessness while those in government live like kings (pun intended).
The average federal ‘worker’ is paid about twice what a worker in the private sector would make doing the same type of job.
At the state and local levels, the situation is often better; but sometimes worse.
Here is a Reason Magazine story about how lavish pensions for city retirees in Dallas are now threatening to eat up one-fifth of the City’s budgets.
