When you depend on the taxpayer for your salary, you also deserve to be at the whim of said taxpayers when they discover that your generous salaries and benefits are bankrupting the state. Right to work states like Florida and Texas, where the public employee unions have little power, have switched toward defined contribution programs and greater employee contributions toward healthcare. Socialist states with strong public employee unions (NY, NJ, CA) will, unfortunately, likely go bust before they force the bureaucratic leeches off the gravy train.
The days of getting full health benefits and 85% of your bloated salary will go bye-bye eventually, as those of us who bust our butts in the private sector are getting sick and tired of our blood getting sucked by the vampire state, and the bureaucrats who serve it.
this is a very dangerous statement. what if a bunch of taxpayers gang up on certain people and their whim becomes that they should all be fired? what if a state policeman gets approached by a group of taxpayers who demand access to his gun? or demand that he harrass their political opponents. government employees are not your servant any more than government buildings are your property to use as you see fit. popularity contests are a poor way to manage personnel. when you begin to work for someone you enter into a contract with that entity. neither side can change the conditions willy-nilly. we can continue this monday if you're so inclined