'Too Big To Manage'

'Too Big to Manage' series exposes how taxpayers are forced to fund thousands of federal employ

They said Wall Street banks were "too big to fail" in 2008. In 2014, it's the federal government that is "Too Big to Manage."

That's the title of a series appearing this week on washingtonexaminer.com by the Watchdog investigative reporting team's Mark Flatten. It's about "official time" and it's a doozy.

Never heard of official time? That's not surprising because federal officials absolutely loathe to talk about it in public.

You pay, they organize

Here's why: There are hundreds of top-dollar federal bureaucrats who don't do a lick of work for the taxpayers. They spend their days at the office working for federal employee unions.

"Federal employees spent 3.4 million hours working for their unions at taxpayers' expense, the equivalent of more than 1,700 full-time positions," Flatten reports.

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