You would love to take a ten per cent cut in your after-tax salary? Your after-tax salary as a government employee?

If someone had offered us, back when we were government employees, a deal like that, we would have been UNABLE to take it, would have been forced to protest the bill, because a ten per cent cut in our take home pay then would have meant we could not survive. That's not "greed," that's irreducible minima. I don't know what actual money they get in Wisconsin, but I do know percentages never tell the whole story.

Perspective. Yes indeed, it can be useful.