HERE’S WHY FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT UNIONS LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT: Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group reports today that federal employee unions added 40,000 new members in 2015. That’s the biggest annual increase in eight years. But wait, there’s more!

“Due to the growth of the government’s workforce, however, the percentage of unionized federal employees dropped from 27.5 percent in 2014 to 27.3 percent in 2015. The federal government employed 3.59 million people in 2015, up from 3.41 million people in 2014,” according to Watson, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Bigger government means more union members, many of whom will contribute to the unions’ political action committees, which will enable more contributions to sympathetic congressmen who in turn vote for more government. Completing the Iron Triangle are the government contractors and special interests beneficiaries of government. Round and round they go, and can you guess who’s paying for it?