Oh you guys add in the welfare recipients too. That article is a great agenda piece from a very liberal paper who hates all things Department of Defense and military.
The link I posted is from Fox Business - hardly a bastion of liberalism. And the article is based on a CBO study that Republican lawmakers asked for. Here is the gist of the argument against federal workers. It used to be you joined the federal workforce because it was stable and you had little chance of being laid off. The price you paid for that stability was that you got paid less than in the private sector. Now federals never get laid off and get paid a significant amount more than their private sector counterparts.
Showing that no good deed goes unpunished, getting paid more and getting fired less appears to have bred an imperial sense of entitled among federals. Not a good sign in a constitutional republic.