From the article:
“The General Schedule may well overpay some employees — no one seems willing to develop the facts”
So much for fact-based discussion.
The article fails to deal with whether or not government should be doing things that some of the high-paid employees are doing.
The article fails to deal with the fact that we can’t afford the government we have, nor will we be able to pay for the government employee retirement promises in the future, nor does it deal with the immorality of government benefits being paid for by the productive efforts of citizens who, because of the cost of government, cannot afford the same benefits for themselves.
It’s a mathematical certainty that the government retirement, of which you are so proud, will not be as long or as lucrative as you wish for it to be.
What is unknown is to what degree government employees and retirees such as yourself will be willing to enslave those who do the real work of America before we cut you off.
Who is doing 'real work' in that circumstance?
A mechanic can't develop a longer lasting safe battery system for an electric car, but a good PhD chemist can. Isn't that 'real work'?
A burger-flipper can't create circuitry to save lives in a combat zone, but a good PhD Electrical Engineer can create them. Isn't that 'real work'?
Some of the people I know in this workforce spend up to 80 hours a week at their jobs. Salaried. Aren't they doing 'real work'?
The benefits after Jan 1 are no longer any incentive to attempt to find a job in the Federal system. Pay freeze, a diminution of medical benefits both for employed and retirees, 401K contributions and a number of other items have been reduced or eliminated entirely, moreso than the public sector.
Making broad generalizations such as yours, doesn't accurately describe reality in a lot of the circumstances.