There was one table of data, however, that really bothered me.  From 2001 through 2010, the average non-government employee in the U.S. saw his or her wages increase 20.7%.  We were more fortunate in Virginia, where our non-government wages rose 27.1%.  For employees of the state or local governments, their wages rose 36.7%.

That means employees with lavish benefits and outrageous job security saw their pay rise faster than employees without those benefits and zero job security!

Wait — it gets worse . . . employees of the Federal government saw their wages rise 42.8%, and that was during a mostly Republican administration.  Something is wrong here!

Lastly, while I yield to no one in my respect, adoration, and appreciation for combat veterans, I fail to understand why the pay for service members rose a whopping 93.2% during the same period.  Of course, it may be necessary to increase pay to get enough bodies to fight two simultaneous wars for a decade, but does the paper-shuffler in Virginia deserve the same pay raise as the infantryman in Afghanistan.

Something is wrong here!