The Road to Serfdom

From USA Today, Dec. 11:

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

On Sunday, Mitt Romney commented on Meet the Press (via GOP12):

"The real threat here is something Alan Greenspan just said, and that is if we don't take action to rein in the scale of government and the growth of government spending and the compensation levels of government workers. You saw average government workers are now making $30,000/year more than the average private sector worker... this threatens our long-term viability... It's not a partisan issue. It's a growth of government issue, and it's got to start or America's future could be very much in jeopardy."