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To: T.O.K.

When I started working for DoD in the mid 80’s fresh out of college, I was making $7.35/hour. That was just about half of what my peers in the private sector were making.

I was in the Clinton administration that “pay parity” became a big issue and by about 2000, pay including benefits really was at about parity with the private sector, but it didn’t stop. The same pay increases kept coming.

You’ll get no argument from me, I certainly make more as a federal employee now than I could make in the private sector.

Pay should be at least frozen as it now is. I’ve also been telling my coworkers they should plan on a 10% decrease in pay and an increase in health insurance cost.

I have no interest in the house of cards coming down because that’s the house I’m living in. I hope other federal employees realize that.


3 posted on 08/30/2011 6:16:49 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: seowulf
I was in the Clinton administration...

I just want to make it perfectly clear: I was NOT in the Clinton administration!

That I should be It.

4 posted on 08/30/2011 6:19:34 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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