How or why did government workers start being regarded as "the enemy?"?

All over the news we read about local government, municipalities, state governments talking about how they pay so much for pensions, they have to lay off workers to balance the budgets, etc. Meanwhile GE pays 0% taxes, and other large corporations pay little or no taxes due to loopholes and lawyers all working so they pay the minimum. Yet government workers are perceived as the enemy: lazy, greedy, spoiled. When the economy was good, in the 1980’s, nobody wanted a government job, everyone wanted a job in the corporate world making large bonuses and raises.

How did the switch to being regarded as “the enemy” come about?