Throw in cops, fire personnel, city utilities workers, mayors, city councils, county/city controllers, administrators, water and power employees, and on and on and on.
And on and on.
We are being economically gang banged by these folks, many of which are now unionized....
BTW, all of these government lottery style benefits and gold plated tax paid pensions will eventually choke us all off.
Public servants?
Riiiiight.
Here in NJ the costs of teachers (present and future salaries and benefits) are driving out businesses and workers; the state is being left with illegals and gibsmedats.
We just lost the Mercedes HQ to Atlanta; on top of the losses in the financial sector over the years, this is going to hurt. There was a slew of public employee parasites being paid by these employers that will now see their costs pushed onto individual taxpayers.