one small political upside ofe i this recession. as joe said, the money has run, out, but it's finally focused public attention on this.c the numbers are astonishing. aree the beginning of 2008, the private sector has lost 8 8 million jobs, but thejobsbut government, state, local and federal, has added 600,000 positions. 600,000.positi the average federal employee earns $123,000 in pay and eye benefits, twice the -- what thea private sector employee gets, and earns programs that private employee sector employees have seen in ages, things like fully, funded pensions. you're seeing public outrage over this as well, which is whii driving it, as nd in particularo the move to modernize these programs in addition to cut c back. >> this collective bargaining this, joe, is really fascinating, because public sector workers haven't had always had collective bargaining.or in california it only happened t as recently as 1978.lifo john kennedy gave it to federal9 workers. in 1962.1962