As a federal employee, I completely disagree with this bogus "study." We don't make big bucks in the federal government, I assure you. Believe me, the taxpayers are getting their money's worth!
I agree entirely...as a state employee I know for a fact that my "private sector" counterparts make an average of 15 -35% more than I...after you acount for benefits. I don't do this for the money I do do it to help my fellow citiznes!
LOL. That's a good one.
BS. When I worked in the pentagon, you could tell who was a contractor, and who was a federal slug, by how fast they walked.
"We don't make big bucks in the federal government, I assure you. Believe me, the taxpayers are getting their money's worth!"
As a fellow Freeper, I would normally take you at your word. This time, though, Reagan's "Trust but veryify" dictum keeps ringing in my ears.
Would you please post images of your most recent paycheck, along with your pension statements, and most recent tax return, so we can see indeed if we are really getting our "money's worth!" Also please post the official job title and job description, and the equivalent job in the private sector, with its compensation, benefits included.
I ask because, in my experience and observation, most workers who are treated and compensated well and have virtually no chance of losing their jobs settle into a remarkably complacent state of self-importance. Their packages soon become, in their minds, entitlements. This is constantly reinforced because they are surrounded by like-motivated workers.
If you have a "public service" argument, I'd prefer not to hear it. Jobs done "for the common good," in my mind, are those on the front lines of our literal freedom, or for grindlingly low compensation. If your government profession lets you become a literal millionaire (factoring value of benefits) over your working life, you haven't really "sacrificed," have you?
With the exception of a few cops and some military people, EVERY government worker I've known or known of (yes, federal, state and local level) has gone into it because it was a sinecure, and a well-compensated one at that. In other words: Once in, it's almost impossible to get fired.
The bureaucracy that runs our government is bloated to slothful proportions. Those of us who work on the outside ... actually--literally, mind you--pay for all of you on the inside. We make things--goods or services. You make nothing. If your ranks were cut by ten percent tomorrow, the only notice of it would be your union heads pissing and moaning on TV, surely caterwauling about how "the public will be hurt" because the civil service ranks are being cut. (Oh, I would continue the cuts, 5-7% a year, for a decade.) And you are a lifetime drain, on both the populace and the Republic--your pensions and healthcare will enslave our great grandchildren.
I have always gotten two reactions from the parasite class when I propose "sunshining" the compensation they recieve: Stone silence (with hateful looks) or a demand to reveal MY compensation.
Sorry, I work in the private sector, and it's none of your damned business. But since I pay you, and you're my employee, I'd like you to prove what YOU said: "Believe me, the taxpayers are getting their money's worth!"
Waiting....
How would you know if the taxpayers are getting their money's worth? You've never worked a day in your life in the private sector.
In fact, most govt. workers are grossly overpaid and over bennied for what they do.