Bureaucrats are stealing Americans blind

First of a three-part series Before I came to the United States in the late 1990s, I spent eight reasonably happy years working as a civil servant in the headquarters of the British Department of Transportation.

At one point, I even joined the National Union of Civil and Public Servants. It was a time of great change for the British civil service. Successive Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, having successfully privatized the great nationalized industries, were turning their attention to government itself.