Sure there is loads of waste in the public (and private) sector, and I have first hand experience of the former.
However there's nothing fair or even practical about addressing that by cutting the wages/hours of those at the 'bottom end' of the pay scale (frontline usually), now is there?
Usually, 'overmanagement' etc is the cause.
And just because you don't work in the public sector doesn't mean you don't depend on it. You know you do.
I mean they're even speaking about less money for 'the police'.