Let’s just look at government workers.
I’m a government employee and I work my ass off.
That is an awefully big paintbrush you are using. Not every Federal Worker is the personnat the post office that ignores you, a corrupt IRS bureaucrat or a porn watching Homeland employee. These idiots give us all a bad name.
We are DOD men and women making things for the warfighter, managing contracts, ensuring quality and engineers. We are NASA and orbital engineers working on your defense systems. Who do you think oversees the maintenance, design and upgrades of your nuclear program? Military folk rotate in and out every 2-3 years. We live here.
We are planning mankinfs trip to the Stars, watching the weather, drug interdiction and doing all kinds of jobs - hand in hand with Americas best.
Only a few bad apples ruins the work of hundreds of thousands of excellent people.
Lets.
Over the past half century the U.S. population has increased by a third while U.S. federal payrolls have fallen by 60%. If we say that the Fed gov't now is doing the same work as it did 50 years ago, then fed employee productivity growth is about equal to that of the average U.S. worker, namely a doubling of real output during the period.
If we believe that the federal gov't is now doing much more than it did back then we'll have to say that increases in fed employee productivity is way above that of the average U.S. worker.