Steven Greenhut’s appearance on C-SPAN’s BookTV is now available for viewing online — click here. He talked about his new book Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation on December 10, 2009 at a book signing event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Orange, California.

He takes a critical look at government workers and the unions that represent them. He argues that public employees receive salaries, pensions, benefits, and a level of job security that far outpace workers in the private sector, and that they have become a huge drain on local, state and federal coffers.  

A former member of the Orange County Register’s editorial board, Steve is the director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Investigative Journalism Center and News Bureau in Sacramento. He is also the author of Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain.

The streaming video runs approximately 50 minutes. During his talk Steve makes reference to CFFR’s president Marcia Fritz and the organization’s pension reform ballot initiatives, and CFFR vice president Jack Dean makes a brief cameo appearance near the end of the question and answer session.