Both are breaches of trust. which is why I categorize this as "GOP hypocrisy." When state employees took their jobs, it was with the understanding that in exchange for working for less than they could get in the private sector, they wouldn't pay for their retirement.

I will argue that some regulations can be unhelpful when they are applied without a measure of commonsense. I recommend a book by Phil Howard called "The Death of Common Sense" in which he argues that there are regulations that while well meaning, are taken to extremes or applied when they serve little purpose. However, often problem is not the regulations but the laws requiring them. Over the last 50 years, laws have become more complicated and demand exact processes and procedures that leave those developing and enforcing regulations little leeway. Why has that happen? Howard has some theories. I think it's because of the extreme influence of lobbyists who demand that exceptions and benefits to their interest be written into the law, instead of allowing the agencies charged with enforcing the law to show a measure of commonsense in their implementation. Thus, the law ties the hands of administrators. Of course, you may not like giving a measure of power to the administrators, who many call bureaucrats. Bu the point of my post is not whether regulations are good or bad, but whether the news media should report ad nauseum the GOP's mantra that regulations kill jobs without demanding that they offer some evidence. And according t the article I link to, they apparently can't prove a causal relationship. It may cost businesses time and money, but that doesn't mean that the net effect in the economy is lost jobs. Regulations that improve our environment, for example, may create more "green" jobs than the "dirty" jobs that are lost.