Pay for performance? Fuggeddaboutit! Congress keeps its automatic pay increase, and taxes, inflation, deficits, and the national debt all rise. Down Independence Avenue, Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats get automatic pay raises and universal “outstanding” performance ratings. (Footnote: take a laptop with you into HHS headquarters and its serial number is logged in and out by an armed guard. Apparently, so many employees are stealing government-owned laptops that “something” had to be done. But hey — they aren’t just stealing from the taxpayers, the elderly, and their doctors any more! Now, where was I …) Meanwhile, my hometown paper … Continue reading The Future Under ObamaCare