Public self-servants, that is.
“We’re not going to balance the budget on the backs of federal employees — nor should we”
Why not try? An immediate adjustment of pay and benefits to levels commensurate with the private sector would lower costs, and reduce the headcount as folks would have a reason to become part of actual productive tax-paying enterprises (if they can) as opposed to an active disincentive to do so now.
Yeah, I know it will never happen, but you don’t fix a problem by refusing to solve it. It’s the same with Social Security, Medicaid, pensions of all sorts - if the money isn’t there, adjust immediately, and let everyone reap the benefits of poor management, economic downturns, and other “bad luck” quickly.
Even FDR was AGAINST the”Unionization”of Public-Sector Workers.He could see that it would come to no good!!!