One Of Many Reasons Unemployment Will Remain High

This chart shows one of many reasons unemployment will remain high.  This chart is from Hot Air on March 31.  Ed Morrissey wrote the article that includes it.  In the article, he points out that right now federal employees make more than their counterparts in the private sector and recieve better benefits (our taxes pay these wages and benefits, which were negotiated by public-sector unions).  Generally speaking, the government does not lay off employees in a recession to the degree that the private sector does (if at all).  Public employees continue to lobby for bigger government and better benefits--public-sector pension benefits are causing major fiscal problems in a number of states right now.  We have forgotten that the government is supposed to work for us, and now, in the current economy, we are all working for the government and not being paid for it!