I Want That Job

We all have a little FatCrat in us... Who, after all, if offered this job, could turn it down:

The Education Department will eliminate a Bush-era "education policy attaché" based in Paris -- the one in France -- whose annual salary, housing allowance and business expenses exceed $630,000.

The good news is that the position is being cut. The bad news is that it existed in the first place.

Bureaucrats can't be trusted to be frugal with other people's money. Not because they are evil, but because they are human. It's not a question of additional review or accountability or systems. It's the question of the inherent logic of the public expenditure. Bigger budgets are a sign of bureaucratic success, and the Department of Education has gone from $14 billion in 1980 to as much as $100 billion in this decade. Even if you correct for inflation and population growth, more than double.

The good news in this article is that it seems someone at the Washington Post is reading FatCratz (see our earlier post):

The Department of Homeland Security has started buying its supplies in bulk and -- to the surprise and delight of bureaucrats -- discovered it's much cheaper that way.

We'll take that as a complement, though it could also mean our humor is so obvious that even the Post can come up with it on their own. At least we beat them to it.