Government,  for government,  by government.  Half a year's work for a full year's pay.  Top ten benefits in the nation.  

When JFK allowed Federal workers to unionize,  and then went and bedded an 18 year old intern,  this country was lost.  The beginning of the end.  That it came just days after former President Eisenhower warned the Nation,  in his farewell speech,  that there were forces out there to tear our democratic republic asunder.  Most remember that as the "military industrial complex" speech,  but if you read the whole thing,  he warned against institutionalized education and research financed by Federal tax dollars as well.  He was prescient.   We are there.