They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and, forgetting that a government produces nothing at all …. that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it.

The same piece of capital cannot be used in two ways. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but if it was put into reproductive use, it would have to be granted in wages to an efficient and productive laborer. 

Hence the real sufferer by that kind of benevolence which consists in an expenditure of capital to protect the good-for-nothing is the industrious laborer. 

http://mises.org/daily/2485

“The aforementioned CD Howe report notes that total compensation per civilian employee in the federal government reached $94, 000 in 2009/2010, nearly double the average of $47,500 in the private economy.”

http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3790?print=yes

But civil servant Shannon Steele said she earns her pay. ”Of course I get more benefits and stuff, but I think I deserve them,” she said. “I do a lot of work, and it’s stressful.”

“For me to make that amount of money, I would have to work twice as much time,” tradesman Tim Cogswell told CTV News.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20070730/civil_servants_070730/

Artist Joel Richardson says the city has painted over a popular Dupont St. mural that it paid him $2,000 to create ….. Richardson says the mural “had nothing to do with Stephen Harper” — while it is “subversive and anti-freewheeling capitalism” ….. ”

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1000475–artist-says-city-erased-mural-it-paid-him-to-paint

They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and, forgetting that a government produces nothing at all …. that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it.

The same piece of capital cannot be used in two ways. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but if it was put into reproductive use, it would have to be granted in wages to an efficient and productive laborer. 

Hence the real sufferer by that kind of benevolence which consists in an expenditure of capital to protect the good-for-nothing is the industrious laborer. 

http://mises.org/daily/2485

“The aforementioned CD Howe report notes that total compensation per civilian employee in the federal government reached $94, 000 in 2009/2010, nearly double the average of $47,500 in the private economy.”

http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3790?print=yes

But civil servant Shannon Steele said she earns her pay. ”Of course I get more benefits and stuff, but I think I deserve them,” she said. “I do a lot of work, and it’s stressful.”

“For me to make that amount of money, I would have to work twice as much time,” tradesman Tim Cogswell told CTV News.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20070730/civil_servants_070730/

Artist Joel Richardson says the city has painted over a popular Dupont St. mural that it paid him $2,000 to create ….. Richardson says the mural “had nothing to do with Stephen Harper” — while it is “subversive and anti-freewheeling capitalism” ….. ”

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1000475–artist-says-city-erased-mural-it-paid-him-to-paint

‘There’s lots of way that we can get to balanced budget ‘

They just can’t think of any.

‘There’s lots of way that we can get to balanced budget ‘

They just can’t think of any.