It's not only in places like that. Even in Los Angeles, some residents have the feeling that government workers are a kind of protected elite class, mostly insu

It's not only in places like that. Even in Los Angeles, some residents have the feeling that government workers are a kind of protected elite class, mostly insulated from the free market's demands for ever increasing productivity and efficiency, global competition, economic cycles and the high cost of health care and retirement. See, for example: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-dwp-contract-6252017-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-dwp-cont...