How Can You Possibly ‘Defraud’ the Government?!
A man named Kashim had five full-time government jobs at once, 183 contracted hours a week, and made £350k. Read the British account here, comparing this to polygamy (?!).
Mises explained in Bureaucracy (1944) that a bureau has no profit-and-loss account, so it can check whether staff follow rules, but not the value (if any) of what they produce. Where output can’t be measured, the job is a computer login times five.
Prosecutors said his “performance” suffered. What performance suffered, and how? Was it make-work? If no taxpayers complained about anything, it probably was. The absence of formal performance measures is then a mere symptom.
A “job” you can hold five of is not a job at all!
And if this conviction is the result of a “thorough and painstaking investigation”, then they are wasting taxpayer money for very meager, very late results in the name of pretending to care about efficiency, and those responsible will rarely be “held to account”.
Defra will pursue “all available avenues”?! In Whitehall, an avenue is a cul-de-sac with a pension. And punishment? He will be held at a government prison at taxpayer expense…
The government’s “National” Fraud Initiative should be renamed “Government Fraud etc.”; the word “national” is itself a fraudulent government-washing word (alongside “public servant”, “public purse”, and indeed the term “public” itself; government is about private people using other people’s money for extracting privatized gain, but they usually finesse it far better than Kashim).
Their cure for one man holding five government jobs is… more government jobs: a counter-fraud team, a financial investigator, someone ensuring tougher hiring checks, and someone else making sure it was done. Each is a full-time post, yet, on the evidence, one man could hold several. Somewhere, the next Kashim is applying to be Defra’s financial investigator, on top of his other plum posts.
Abolish the State!
Quick note to all foreign spy agencies: Kashim told the Home Office he wasn’t already a government leech. The department that issues Britain’s passports simply took his word for it.
Rambam, Sechirus, end of chap. 13, several lessons:
כדרך שמוזהר בעה”ב שלא יגזול שכר עני ולא יעכבנו כך העני מוזהר שלא יגזול מלאכת בעה”ב ויבטל מעט בכאן ומעט בכאן ומוציא כל היום במרמה אלא חייב לדקדק על עצמו בזמן שהרי הקפידו על ברכה רביעית של ברכת המזון שלא יברך אותה וכן חייב לעבוד בכל כחו שהרי יעקב הצדיק אמר כי בכל כחי עבדתי את אביכן לפיכך נטל שכר זאת אף בעולם הזה שנאמר ויפרץ האיש מאד מאד.
What ‘Judaization’ Means
The word has come in time to mean Jews taking over a given territory, presumably because the Jews then make its character Jewish, but the word itself appears to me to simply mean “making Jewish”, ורבים מעמי הארץ מתיהדים, or anti-antinomianism, lav davka via geography and gentrification.
There is a difference between ייהוד and יהודיזציה.