While reading this thread at Slashdot about the state of North Carolina wanting to eliminate Solitaire and other games from state employees’ computers, I came across this comment:
It’s Welfare (Score:2)
by Art Tatum (6890) on Sunday March 20, @11:16PM (#11995417)It has for some time been obvious to me that government bureaucracy is the *real* welfare program in America. It’s a jobs program for people who can’t get work in the private sector.
Wow. How true that is …
Programmer, husband, father, singer, guitarist, tinkerer, reverse engineer, strange, and living in New Jersey. 
Funny, from what I hear some top level bureaucrats are doing quite well in the private sector, while having their goverment day job at the same time!