Why are those government workers ripping us off?

First, it was the poor ripping off the banks by taking out mortgages they couldn't afford, then failing to pay back the money and interest on their homes. Failing to recognize the "sanctity of the contract." After being foreclosed upon, they should willingly pay back all money and attorney fees accrued in putting them out of their home. After all, what does it cost to live out of a refrigerator box and what are they doing with all of that money they are saving?
A good Republican would pay it back. Just like the owners of that multi-billion complex, Stuyvesant Housing in New York City. Oh wait, they didn't.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/nyregion/25stuy.html

But now, I keep hearing about how Federal workers are paid TWICE what their private counterparts are paid! This past weekend I heard my hero, Rand Paul say it and his hero, Sen. Jim Demint (as in "demented") repeat it.
Apparently, it will now become the new mantra for those who know that the government is totally out of control.
I think the source of this new revelation is an article from that scholarly bastion, USA Today in an August, 2010 article.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm

First, even though the headline reads, "Federal Workers Earning Double their Private Counterparts" that applies only if you believe that mopping floors is the counterpart of designing nuclear warheads. Or that working part time in sales at The Gap is the equivalent of unravelling the human DNA for the NIH.
In other words, the study looked at OVERALL wages between the public and private sectors. I can remember when menial workers were employed by government, but all of that stuff has been outsourced to private contractors. So now the government must be punished for doing what had been asked of them-cutting the cost of providing services.
So, in a breathtaking example of Republican dishonesty, we are now going to have to withstand this new onslaught of charges that Federal Judges are earning more than that guy at the carwash!
And don't expect the lamestream media to point out this new hypocrisy to you-their job is to report whats told, anything else is taking sides.
Get ready for this new myth to grow legs and appear in all conservative talking points. It must be true because I heard it on Fox News.