Posted on 11/18/2004 7:18:09 PM PST by RWR8189
CONGRESS LEANING TOWARD 3.5% RAISE FOR FEDERAL WORKERS
Thu Nov 18 2004 20:06:33 ET
Key members of Congress and staff worked Thursday night to wrap up a fiscal 2005 spending package for federal agencies, and Capitol Hill aides predicted that the legislation would include a provision for a 3.5 percent pay raise for federal employees.
WASH POST reporting on Firday: Despite losing every pay raise vote this year, the Bush administration tried Thursday to hang tough on the proposed raise. The White House budget office released a five-page letter to House and Senate appropriators on the spending package and repeated its opposition to the proposed raise in the letter's fourth paragraph.
The proposed 3.5 percent raise exceeds President Bush's request by $2.2 billion "and provides a percentage increase that exceeds inflation, the statutory base pay increase and the average increase in private sector pay," wrote Joshua Bolton, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The proposed raise "would be very difficult for agencies to absorb," Bolton said, noting that most agencies will probably face an across-the-board cut designed to meet an overall budget cap. The combination, he warned, "will likely require reductions-in-force or shifts of resources away from critical programmatic priorities."
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" The proposed raise "would be very difficult for agencies to absorb," Bolton said, noting that most agencies will probably face an across-the-board cut designed to meet an overall budget cap."
Maybe this will lead to the firing of some useless federal employees and raises for the ones who remain. That's a step in the right direction, at least some brain dead bureaucrats will be out of the government.
That's just the tip of the ole iceberg...wait till its time once again to fatten their own purses and retirement checks...
It will be BONUS time...after all their hard work
Cut their pay and send them home...
Hm. When was their last raise? And what's the average raise of the private sector? I'll need that information before passing judgment on this.
Cut their pay and send them home...
Right on - and right away!
I don't begrudge federal workers a 3.5% pay hike. It's measely. How would you like it if all your boss could cough up for you was a 3.5% raise, even if you were doing a bang-up job? No, I don't begrudge them that amount. However, I firmly believe that we have way too many folks on the federal payroll. If I were "King for a Day", I'd give walking papers to every other civilian in public employ -- fed, state, local, and especially at the school board level :) Every other one, and that would balance things just about right.
It's not? Hm. Every job I've had in the private sector had at least a "cost of living adjustment" of at least 3% a year.
Didn't Congress just give itself a 6% pay raise?
Forget a 3.5% increase in pay for Fed Workers how about a 7% cut in pay and a 3.5% reduction in the Federal work force.
"Forget a 3.5% increase in pay for Fed Workers how about a 7% cut in pay and a 3.5% reduction in the Federal work force."
Dude...what's your knowledge of the federal workforce? Give me an analysis of the last 15 years....
Yuk!
Before these useless bureaucrats give away more money could, they please stop taxing the retirement checks of the people who paid all these Federal salaries over the years.
And taking out a tax on medicare checks is another stupid move on the part of our high living Congressmen and ladies.
Give us a break!
Dude, my knowledge is that they don't do some things they should be doing, like keeping illegal aliens out of the country, and they do do a lot of things they shouldn't be doing, like regulating how handrails are supposed to be, or snooping in everyone's medical records. There are other examples.
Someone has to type the letters, clean the public restrooms, service the government vehicles, file the paperwork, process passports, etc. Most of these folks work hard and should get paid a fair wage. We all complain about the poor service we get from government employees, however, you get what you pay for. IMHO
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I will say the problem of the bloated Federal Government will not be a problem for very long. We are all OLD. And we are being replaced by CONTRACTORS. So just be patient. It will soon be over. How many of your kids have chosen to work in the Government? Not many.
Just my two cents worth.
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