If you believe this, think again. First of all, the money is NOT great. More and more recent research has found that if you take education into account, public employees make LESS than their private sector counterparts:
Bender and Heywood did a study last year for the Center for State & Local Government Excellence, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, in which they concluded that “although a comparison of unadjusted average earnings will show that wages are higher among jobs in state and local government, this result is largely due to the fact that the workers in those sectors have more education.”I can personally attest to this. But what about the part of the myth about how public employees don't create anything or contribute anything to the economy?
They said, “Holding education and other characteristics the same, typical state and local workers earn an average of 11 percent less and 12 percent less, respectively, than comparable private-sector workers." (from A Guide to Public Employee's Rights and Benefits)
