[EyeGuy]

Federal employees sure. A fiscal disaster.

But you all need to sniff around your own LOCAL municipalities:

Firefighters, teachers, cops, and assorted extraneous bureaucrats.

Check out not just their salaries but their blue-ribbon healthcare, paid time off, and pensions.

All paid for on YOUR back.

[massgopguy]

But they could ALL be making more money in the Private Sector!

[presently no screen name]

I went to our highway dept on Friday around 3:30 - they close at 4pm. The doors were locked - early take off before the holiday. That’s an insult to taxpayers in this fiscal climate. None of them give a flip because they have theirs on our back.

In private industry - they are loading work on it’s employees with staying late and taking work home - not so with the gov’t - not expected to make a sacrifice or work even the assigned hours.

[boop]

That Bell,CA city manger made nearly twice what the President of the United States makes! I think Obama sucks, but his job is a tad more demanding.

[familyop]

"But you all need to sniff around your own LOCAL municipalities"

Yes, and many counties are run like municipalities. The total number of local employees (state, county, city) in the USA must be mind boggling.