Is this why democrats love big government?

[jen]

Estimates indicate that upwards of 16,500 new federal IRS bureaucrats will be hired to enforce Obamacare. How much will that cost us taxpayers, at $120,000 per worker? 2 billion. Democrats are perfectly happy with that. The new workers, through their unions, will give all their political contributions to democrats and will, of course, vote democrat, who will, for their votes, pay them more and more in the future. Pretty cool scam, no? Straight out of Sopranos. And they trash Republicans for being greedy!

-8/13/10 USA Today: At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.

[wakeley58]

Big countries have big governments. But Republicans love big governments as much as Democrats.

Your claim of disparity in salaries is misleading because their jobs are quite different and require different amounts of training and education, not to mention that the base salaries are different in different parts of our country. So you are comparing apples to oranges at several levels. Only ignorant people buy your argument.

[vruyk]

No. I think that's why Democrats love insuring the 3.5 million children that don't have coverage.

[hrafn]

well... how else are the feds supposed to afford hookers ?

[stanciyf]

Its the money and power the power and the money. Yes.

[ailwyn]

Democrat mantra. GIVE ME THE MONEY