We are told that businesses are inherently immoral, that they will cheat customers and employees at every opportunity. Government, on the other hand, is the chosen vehicle for correcting the wrongs of society and creating a better world. The idea that calling an organization ‘government’ somehow makes it inherently moral is dead wrong. In fact, if anything we must guard against corruption in government far more than in the private sector because government has far more power to destroy and ruin than private organizations do.
One recent example: EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, responsible for ensuring that the nation’s workers are treated fairly, has itself willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act on a nationwide basis with its own employees, an arbitrator has ruled.
The agency’s practice of offering compensatory time off to its employees rather than overtime pay amounted to “forced volunteering” and was a knowing violation of the law, according to the ruling.
“The case before me, in my view, demonstrates action that went beyond mere negligence,” arbitrator Steven M. Wolf wrote in a decision released last week. ~washingtonpost.com
The idea that government is automatically moral has ramificiations. As we transition to the Government taking over more and more of the private sector, Universal Healthcare and General Motors being two examples, are we likely to see more abuses (ie what would be a private sector ‘abuse’) or less? I say more. And you will have no where to turn for redress except to government. Happy days.