Not necessarily for other sorts of government employees -- since there are all sorts of governments in this country.  I.e., state, county, municipal, etc.  

Municipal employees in my city just got a deal to get no layoffs or furloughs if they get no raises for the next two years -- but they get retroactive raises for the last three.  Yikes!  State employees here got told by the gov, no negotiation on it, that we get no raises for the next two years, some of us don't get the raise for last year that was "deferred" (the non-union employees; unionized ones got it -- not a good idea now that the rest of us finally have the right to unionize and see the incentive, hmmm?), plus we got "furloughed" aka a pay cut plus higher health insurance costs, totaling a pay cut of as much as 10 percent (for the non-unionized).  

So a lot of us have had to defer our retirements, sadly for the younger generation who could use those jobs.  And many of us have enjoyed serving them to help them get those jobs.  So it is not a good time to make jokes about government employees.  Most of us, unlike the few featured here, really do like to serve the public, but we also have our families to consider.