Comment by freedomben

Of course there are some people like that, but if what you say were true I would expect to see wages go up significantly under the Blue Team and then fall back to low levels under the Red Team, yet that doesn't tend to happen. My whole life it's been consistently true that government salaries are much lower, but some people take them because they offer a lot of stability, great benefits, and often a pretty easy/laidback job compared to private industry.