Flutterby™! : welfare queens

The Angry Economist had a link to a message by Stephen J. Turnbull, not all of which I agree with, but the sound-bite stood out:

If you have a job because somebody else is prohibited from offering the product at a lower cost, you're not on salary, you're on welfare.

And yesterday over at Open Knowledge crasch linked to John Stossel's Confessions of a Welfare Queen: How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars.

Oh yeah: This might also be a time to point out that the Kerry campaign is lying when it claims that a net 3 million jobs have been lost under Bush. Since there's been an expansion of 700k jobs in the public sector that's really only 2.3 million. I'm so glad the Republicans are the party of smaller government.