You are correct with this statement.
When I had that choice it was low pay but good benefits for a government job.
Now it is high pay and even better benefits.
I wonder how that happened over the last 40 years.
The parasites voted themselves pay raises and voted us tax raises in parallel.
That's how it happened.
I assume you mean Congress when you use the word "parasites." I don't consider myself to be a parasite. I paid $71,000 in income taxes last year.