There was a time when public workers, because of their comparative job security, were underpaid. That was long ago. Today the average gov't worker makes at least 50 per cent more than his counterparts in the private sector, with generous perquisites.
The average American family makes $50-60K. I'd say making three times that as a manager in a job where there are no profit targets to measure real performance isn't exactly a hardship post. We realize that people stay up night figuring out ways to justify why they are worth what they get, but I have to hear a truly convincing argument to justify these salary levels. When the nation was prosperous, before states and municipalities began regularly running hefty deficits, people ignored what was happening with public sector salary jumps. Hey, I'd like to know how much he'll collect retired.
The bottom-line is this: this is a system that is not sustainable unless workers in the private sector agree to endless tax increases or we develop a two-tiered economic caste system of flush government workers and Everyone Else (yes, Obama's working on that one).
