the american taxpayer unwittily is paying government workers for huge amounts of time to do government work. while they do union work. in "shadowbosses: government unions control america and rob taxpayers blind," we put the number together, according to official government reports, federal employees spend over 3 million hours. this is in 2010 statistics on official time which moons they're getting paid to work for the government but they're doing union work instead. that cost the taxpayers at least $127 million in salary and benefit. when you put in state and local county you are looking at 23 million man hours a year at the cost of over $1 billion. that's a direct subsidize. we're not including all the other subsidizes like giving them office space, giving them copiers, letting them use telephones, as well as a number of other items that we subsidize them with. in the time when we're cutting back teachers, cutting back workers and high unemployment. why are we spending a billion dollars a year just to subsidize these unions who take in multiple billions of dollars a year? an interesti