This topic has lost all substance and has denigrated into a circular shouting match. There is no way you are going to convince CAR or jp or the rest that the public sector is overcompensated. It is just not going to happen. And like wise, not in a million years are you going to convince the rest of us, that these folks are underpaid civil servants acting out of a need to help their fellow man.
I do tend to wonder if that old saw applies to even this topic (on both sides of the argument I might add)…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”