The bloated and pampered “public” sector takes even more cash from the taxpayers and on what basis of greater “need” than anyone else????
Pensions and early retirement health care are one of the biggest separators of the public sector from the private sector. The defined benefit pensions of many states are just raining deferred compensation. The most frustrating point is that the rat legislators and public employee unions keep crying poor man.
Here is a a summary of a study that I finished in the summer. The amount of deferred compensation for Colorado public employees is stunning.
http://www.i2i.org/articles/IB-2007-D.pdf