Interestingly enough, no where in that article does it say conservatives wrote it, and its according the BLSA. Plus USA today is a liberal written newspaper, you might as well use huffington post as your source too.
It is much higher when you take into consideration the medical benefits, the vacation benefits and the pension benefits. Most people know if they want job security, government jobs are the way to go, that is until the government goes broke, which usually means the private sector is going broke.
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.