Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”
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From the October 1, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Something else amazing to see, there is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes. Thank you, government shutdown! Guess what happened yesterday? A hundred thousand feds resigned. Klein, in case you're wondering, this is our time to cheer. Thank you very much. Thank you. A hundred thousand feds resigned yesterday.
I'm going to show you some things that are gonna make you very angry. OK? I hope you're sitting down. I hope you have some black coffee in front of you. I hope you're ready to get a little upset. Let me explain to you why it's OK that a hundred thousand feds resigned yesterday. I've just asked Grok, yo, what's the difference between a federal employee versus a private sector employee when it comes to compensation? And according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, government workers receive 30 to 40% higher rates of pay than private sector workers. Well, that seems obscene and wrong.
Let's look. Private sector worker - the average compensation is $65,000 across America. This is 2025 data. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 65k, that's the average salary for every American. That includes people making an insane amount of money. That includes people, you know, just starting off. Right? So there you go. Average federal government employee, a $106,000. Even state and local government is 82. This is communism. It should be reversed. The average federal government employee should be 65, and the average private sector should be a 106. We're the profitable — we're the productive part of society. This is the productive part of society. This is the parasite sector of society. This is the parasitic society. The parasitic society is sucking the blood off the host, killing the host, slowly but surely. You wonder why our national debt is like this. Look at this chart alone. Average pay. So a hundred thousand feds resigned yesterday, and good riddance.