57,000 Federal Bureaucrats On Paid Leave

By Chris Rossini

WashingtonPost reports:

Tens of thousands of federal workers are being kept on paid leave for at least a month — and often for longer stretches that can reach a year or more — while they wait to be punished for misbehavior or cleared and allowed to return to work, government records show.

During a three-year period that ended last fall, more than 57,000 employees were sent home for a month or longer. The tab for these workers exceeded $775 million in salary alone.

Those 57,000 are better off at home, rather than hassling the rest of us. However, that three-quarters of a billion dollars belongs back in our pockets.

What a racket the parasites have going.

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Chris Rossini is author of Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve. Follow @chrisrossini on Twitter.