While Government Goes Broke, Its Workers Get Big Raises

You compared the federal workforce average salary with the average salary of all U.S. employees giving the impression that federal workers are overpaid. Your comparison is scientifically naive primarily because you are not comparing federal job categories with the equivalent ones in the private sector and state government. The fact that many federal government employees, such as attorneys,judges, bank and security examiners, financial analysts, physicians, and managers of professionals make more than $100,000 per year should not be surprising.

I also think you confuse entrepreneurs, such as Bill Gates or Ray Kroc, with the feckless managers of banks and investment firms whose shortsightedness, opportunism, and greed played a...