Everyone pay me for life a fat pension with CPI’s THAT I NEVER PAID FOR and give me and my family zero co-pay insurance...I’m a gub’mint worker, I DEE-ZERVE IT.
Nope.
Amerikas nomenklatura
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=528809
For those who remember the old Soviet Union, it was a grim place at least for average citizens. But not so for those in government. Contrary to the official ideals of equality and a classless society that the ruling communist regime espoused, the USSR created a privileged class of party members inside government the nomenklatura.
This semipermanent bureaucracy earned higher incomes, got better health care, ate better food and had greater job security than average Russians, the much-despised proletarians. Today, our bloated federal government seems, in significant ways, to be creating this same dynamic.