How do you feel about federal employees making on average $30,000 more than private sector jobs since...?

Most of the jobs require higher education like a college degree and is often harder than a private sector job. If you were to compare a government employee with the required education and compare it to a private sector job that requires the same education and training, you would find that the government employee makes less. A perfect example are teachers, in Wisconsin they were comparing them to the average salary of a person in that state when they should have compared them to a person in the state with the same education which would say they were severely underpaid.

Probably the biggest difference is that there is a different atmosphere in the public sector that many people can't fathom. Z.

He didn't say that. He was (clumsily) saying that they were not being compensated equally for the difficult and complicated jobs they do, jobs that would provide a much higher income in the private sector. Edit @ Kathleen: And those statistics are where?

I get so tired of the "federal employees are lazy" meme. Maybe people have been to one organization whose employees weren't top notch. However, I'm not sure that "lazy" covers Doctors and nurses Radiologists Dentists FBI and CIA agents Border patrol Correctional officers Jail guards Federal police, US marshals and rangers Secret Service Agriculture inspectors Air traffic controllers Justice department attorneys IT workers and of course: the military.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.