Federal Workers Amazingly Overpaid

A new report shows that federal workers are completely overpaid relative to their counterparts in the private sector (this of course will not be news at all to those that have been aware of this growing problem).

"Government workers reportedly are now making twice as much as employees in the private sector.

For the past nine consecutive years, federal employees have received higher increases in salary and benefits on the average compared to nongovernment workers, according to a USA Today analysis.

Chris Edwards, a budget analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said changes need to be made when other employees have seen their salaries in a holding pattern or slashed.

"Can't we now all agree that federal workers are overpaid and do something about it?" he said.

Civil servants received salaries with benefits of $123,049 in 2009 on average compared to employees at private companies making $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis."

Who can possibly be surprised with this news? The level of graft and corruption within the government is at an all-time high. It's as if everyone and anyone associated with the government is over-reaching in order to grab their own "fair share" before the whole Ponzi scheme comes crashing down. The saying "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" seems appropriate here.

Americans cannot stand by and wait for current members of Congress to wake up and fix this problem for us. They (and the people who voted them into office) are ones who have created this sick environment in the first place.

We must elect politicians who think the current size of government is utterly ridiculous (and are willing to vote to defund most of it) and who are in favor of specific amendments to the US Constitution that will ensure that the federal government can never again revert back to its current size.