State and Local Employees are too important for this!

Ted, I'm a former State Slave, and while I agree that state employees should suffer just like the rest of the state, and I survived a number of "RIFTs" while I worked for the state, I do object with the whole notion that "Government workers" don't. I will grant that there were offices that had times of month/year when things were slow, but when the work came it, it was on a tight time line and those people were hard pressed to get it out in the time frame expected. Those people worked very hard for at least half the year, and needed every hand to do it, and those people had to be trained to do the job right, so some yahoo off the street couldn't come in as a temp and be able to do the job at all. I worked in several different offices, even departments, of the state, and everyone in those offices worked hard. Honestly, if the work hadn't come in for some reason - like severe weather one time - you would see us looking for things to do. I did data entry for 15 years. I had a fall that gave me a severe bruise on my left upper arm, and, believe it or not, typing was very painful. I went to the doc and he decided, with my tendency for inflammations, I shouldn't do the data entry for 10 days (rest of the current week and the next week.) Well, the other side of the office, had a back log of stuff to be filed, and letters to be written (couldn't do that) and mail that could be opened so the letters could be written. In 10 days I had wiped out the filing, opened the mail each day, purged the files (they turned out to be 2 years behind) and even started screening the forms that were to be data entered. The gal who managed the other side said that my efficiency surprised her because she had some temps coming in to do what I had done in 10 days and she had expected it to take 2 months! And it probably WOULD'VE taken them 2 months because were they experienced file clerks? (that's what I did before I got the job I had that turned into data entry.)

Public employees forget that they are working for the people and whatever the people want, that's what should happen. Public employees have it better than private sector workers and why should that be, when WE are the bosses?! I think everyone should have the opportunity to make a living wage but should not be a parasite. They are public servants and have no right to drain our coffers when we are in the red. They are treated better than our military, which should be a crime.