[Joe Hadenuf]

The more people working for the government, the more power they have. Government has grown all encompassing, controlling most every aspect of business and our private lives. They have no intention of reducing it's size.

Add up all the local, state and federal taxes we pay and it comes to about 50 percent of our income. Looking at this article, it's no surprise.

At the end of a brutal 50 or 60 hour work week, look at your pay check, ask yourself, who in the hell are we really working for?

I think the answer is clear.

[Fledermaus]

I've known this since my college days in the 1970's.

We could fire half of them and get rid of the programs they worked under and nobody would even know. That's how bad it is.

This is why I support a plan (I thought up! lol) that government employees should have to make a choice between being unionized or allowed to vote. But not both.

[dennisw]

I am far from a libertarian but public employee pay and bennies is way above that in the private sector. 5 of the wealthiest counties are next to Washington DC. Are bedroom communities for the Federal workforce.

This is an outrageous rip off of the US taxpayer by an imperial Washington DC.

Compensation by states and large cities is also out of line. Most of those drones would get a 50% pay/benefits cut if they tried their luck in the private sector. It's not for nothing they'll do anything to avoid laboring in "the dreaded private sector"