ICYMI: Cato Institute, FOX News Analyst Highlights Government Gone Wild Video

Bureaucrats Gone Wild

Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato Institute weighed in today on Government Gone Wild’s most recent video, calling it one of the best videos on bureaucratic spending—in fact, second only to his own video.
“This is the second-best video I’ve ever seen on the bloated and overpaid government workforce,” notes Mitchell, a Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, Washington’s premier free-market think tank. “I especially like how he understands that the problem is the size of government and I also admire his recognition that Republicans often are just as bad as Democrats.”
Florida-based Government Gone Wild, a non-partisan movement aimed at educating citizens about the national debt and out-of-control government spending, produced the video, entitled “Special Interests…Exposed!”  Government Gone Wild has exploded onto the grassroots Conservative scene, garnering millions of hits online and a recent feature on the Drudge Report.
“This video highlights an alarming trend: the era of enormous government and entrenched government workers,” explained Blaise Ingoglia, founder of Government Gone Wild.  “The numbers speak for themselves, and here is a perfect example: As Americans have struggled to pay the bills under the current recession, the Transportation Department has gone from one employee making over $170,000 a year to 1,690 employees making that amount. Why do we need that many astronomical bureaucratic salaries?”

Other highlights of the video include:

·         The Department of Defense had 1,868employees making over $150,000 a year when the recession started. Today, that number is 10,100 employees.
·         Since this recession started, the number of federal employees making more than $100,000 a year has doubled...in less than two years.
·         The average total compensation for a private sector employee in 2009 was $61,000.00, compared with $123,000.00 for a federal employee.
·         With approximately 21,300,000 government employees in this country, that means that about 16% of this nation’s voting electorate works for government.

“If you count spouses or other family members, that means at least32%of the voting electorate will be likely to come out and vote against candidates who propose cutting government spending,” concluded Ingoglia. “That is a big block of people—and the hidden danger of big government.”

Sincerely,

Blaise Ingoglia, Founder
Government Gone Wild!

Bureaucrats Gone Wild