Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV

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This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European Union and Wisconsin tells us that... Bureaucracy kills. And it kills totally. And...

America, The Fly in Government Employment’s Buttermilk, Part II

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This is Part II of our History of Government Employment. In Part I we established that government employment, mostly armed to the teeth, has been around for thousands of years longer than government. We also...

Let’s Be Clear, Most Public Employees are Not “Workers”

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Did anyone ever call an airline pilot a "worker?"  How about an actor, a member of the Screen Actors Guild? OK, these are both private sector professionals in unions. But how a cop? Is a...

The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells

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  In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...