Not surprising, since most that I've seen are at least 100% lazier and 50% less intelligent.
Government workers don’t do anything anyway
except once i blue moon they oppress Americans as in Lois Lerner of the IRS , and the EPA cretins
government school teachers graduating illiterate marxists
public housing projects are hell
NASA doing global warming research for a hoax
I am a retired oxymoron, a government worker. The lower payed are the ones that do the most work. The Highest paid GS15 “work” in Washington DC so you can guess their accomplishments.
Actually there’s a very real, hidden cost that needs to be factored into the cost of a government “worker”. That would be the cost of contractors that, IN MANY CASES, do the work that government employees should be doing. So in effect, the taxpayer is often paying twice for the same job.
Government managers often find it easier to “task” a contractor to do something because their own people either don’t have the skill or lack the dedication to get the work done. This is in many instances a reality within the government environment. The written contracts are not supposed to allow this, but it happens all the time. Its one of those things that people just wink at.
For example, USA Today (McPaper) did one of these "studies" a few years ago, and published the headline grabbing sensationalist claim that Federal workers make into the mid-six figures on average. A simple Google search of the number of Federal employees and the GS pay scales proved their claim completely false. McPaper then went on to claim that they fudged the statistics for some fictitious "total compensation and and quality of life" comparison, or some such nonsense. They threw in insurance, 401K matching, and other things that were not a one-to-one comparison anyway due to jobs or specific careers, but used their faulty numbers anyway.
Then, when you try to break down the comparisons of "Government Workers" - you try to ask: "Are they distinguishing among State, local, municipal, or Federal employees?" You get the sideways shuffle almost every time. Many State workers are enormously well compensated, but depending on the particular State, others are not. Moreover, if you ask if they are throwing teachers in some states (who again are well compensated in some states) with a Federal worker, they admit to fudging the data. Then you try and figure out if they are comparing professions like police and firefighters in the data, and which State, and you get the same shuffle.
In the end, "studies" like this one are gasoline bombs meant to fuel outrage. There should be outrage over many things our government does. But I don't appreciate anyone who throws red meat out there with manipulated data and attempts to play me like a fiddle.
They actually cost us more than that. Government employers waste so much on supplies we don’t need. And if they buy the wrong thing, no big deal, it’s not their money.
Truth is that most government employees post on the Internet all day on the clock. I belong to a team sports forum and the place is filled with government employees posting all day on the clock.
So what are Republicans doing to oppose this?
Sending jobs overseas?
The Republicans have been useless thus far, on employment.
Totally useless.
Shhhhh,,,,I worked for the government!
And made way more than $4.89/hour..........
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh................