The only question I have about these stats is:
Does the private sector number include the people who make $8.10 an hour at Wal-Mart? Those jobs don’t have a Federal analogue.
Don’t get me wrong, I basically agree but feel we should make an apples-to-apples comparison.
Yep -- and it also includes the minimum-wage contractor employees who sweep the floors and empty the trash in government offices. (That was one of Reagan's cost-cutting reforms, IIRC -- a good idea, but it does screw up attempts to compare bulk average to bulk average).