There's no question that people working outside of government have to make do with considerably less, certainly in extended benefits, and certainly in pension benefits.
So much has been made of these 19,000 reductions in government employment. But in the space of six months, from 2008 to 2009, over 440,000 people lost their jobs—when government employment at the federal level was going up by 8,000 or 9,000. They didn't get committee hearings; they didn't get to come and plead their case. People lost jobs, they lost homes. That was a devastating period. People who went through that are unsung. They don't get hearings, tribunals, and appeals.
Going back to this case from the 15-page report, when this fellow was reinstated with his six-figure income, his rank, his classification, and his benefits, the adjudicator said he was partly acting through boredom and insufficient work. That was part of the rationale for the reinstatement.