Did you know...

...that Democrats voted [5/28/10] in favor of a 1.4 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees proposed by the Obama administration?

But...

The pay and benefits for the public worker is a $1.45 compared to a dollar in the private sector. So there’s a 45% premium there… If you cut the pay and made it equal, the benefits and the pay with private sector workers, it would save about $340 billion. That’s enough to fill the budget holes in every state over the next two years, if we were just on the same playing field.

Dagen McDowell: US Could Save $340 Billion By Cutting Public Wages Down to Private Sector Pay Rates (Video)

So, either the Democrats are total idiots for not knowing this OR they have a different agenda that has nothing to do with being good stewards of our nation's resources...