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libertarian jerry says:

First of all,most of these Federal “employees” couldn’t make an honest living in the American Free Enterprise System if their lives depended on it. Many retire at 55 or 60 and spend the rest of their lives collecting a bloated pension(which is adjusted for inflation on a regular basis) plus Health Insurance for the “employee” and their spouse till death plus the added bonus of double dipping into Social Security. With that said, the sad part of the story is that all these Federal “employees” are net tax consumers. In other words, the Government doesn’t create any wealth. It (the government) can only tax and or borrow. Thus,all government “employee” compensations are derived from the productive tax base of the American Free Enterprise System. Statistically speaking the average productive American,in the private sector,when you include all taxes paid,directly and indirectly, to all government levels (Federal,State,Local) has to work almost 8 out of 12 months of the year to support government. This is why we often have both husband and wife working full time just to make ends meet. Finally,we end up with a bankrupt America,deeply in unsustainable debt, with our former public servants now our masters and thus leaving the people working in the productive Economic Class as debt and tax serfs. So much for the “Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free.”

dectra says:

Jerry,

Your diatribe is based on hatred.

Most federal employees come to government service after establishing solid careers.

You can’t retire at 55 or 60 without time in... a fact you ‘conveniently overlook.

If “America is bankrupt” as you state, let’s look at the cost of Bush’s “Wars of Choice” or his tax cuts for the RICH.....

Gee, you didn’t mention that now did you, boy???

Man-of-Reason says:

I’m amazed at the opinion expressed in this article as follows:

“In a nutshell, the federal government way overpays people with the lowest levels of education, while also showering them with outsize benefits.”

In the last thirty three years, the private sector, supported by Republican administrations, has busted unions, cut wages and benefits, especially defined benefit retirements. The private sector has used bankruptcy as a financial strategy to escape all agreements with labor. Therefore, the article could also have read:

“In a nutshell, the private sector greatly underpays people with the lowest levels of education, while systematically cutting their benefits so that the government must be called upon to support working families who make too little to minimally provide for their own basic needs.”