Is this a surprise? It shouldn't be.
While taxpayers have been sleeping, the public sector has been accumulating. Where else in the economy is hiring, pay and promotion predicated so much on internal arcana that normal market labor forces only really apply at entry level positions?
Where else in the economy do functions get to compare their pay to their "peers" (only other government agencies) and then apply a "we get to keep up with the average" pay and benefits ratchet?
Where else in the economy do workers retire so early with the same compensation they were receiving while employed?
All of this at taxpayer expense, because taxpayers HAVE NO OVERSIGHT over THEIR EMPLOYEES because their elected 'representatives' are not representing the taxpayers.
In the current climate, the public sector is howling over "budget shortfalls". Budgets in the public sector don't seem to work like in the private sector. The public sector decides how much it wants and then either takes it from the taxpayers (DON'T LET THEM!) or, if powerful enough as in the Federal Government, creates funny-money and swells the deficit that will saddle our children and their children and even their children.
Taxpaying voters need to take control of this agenda. Our ongoing economic malaise could be the kindling that helps start the fire of public sector wage and benefit acccountability and control.
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