Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.
Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.
I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.