Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson.
Note: please excuse any typos – My assistant who proofreads is out today and I am not a very good editor!
USA Today reported that on average people who hold Government jobs make more than people who hold the same occupation in the private sector. This is true for more than 8 out of 10 occupations.
The article states – “Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available. These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.”
The government spends about $125 billion annually on 2 million citizens.
Riddle me this – How do you give Government more control of everything? First you do nothing to help the private sector create jobs. Sorry to the politicians in Washington, little too late with your job bill. The damage has been done. It will now take years to overcome what you have allowed to let happen. Second, you put as much of America on the Government payroll as possible through better paying jobs and extended unemployment benefits. How do you entice people to work for the Government? You make it much sweeter than the private sector.
Of course, the National Treasury Employees Union President has to disagree with the findings. Colleen Kelley says the comparison is faulty because it “compares apples and oranges.” Federal accountants, for example, perform work that has more complexity and requires more skill than accounting work in the private sector, she says.
Really? She said that with a straight face? I think that private sector accountants might disagree. We are talking about the numbers that are coming out of Washington where the luxury of assuming exists.
See the differences in pay here -
Tags: Bob Brooks, employment, Government, USA Today
March 9th, 2010 at 7:26 am
It is the bureaucrats in government that run the show. No matter what the politicians try to do, which usually isn’t much, the bureaucracies made up of life time bureaucrats no how to play the system. Too many are not accountable to the public anymore and promoting thier own agendas instead of the public’s. Our government is not only doing too much but not serving the public as well.