Posted on 07/07/2010 5:19:41 PM PDT by MamaDearest
Private employees toil 13½ months to earn what federal workers do in 12.
Pay cuts, layoffs and the highest unemployment rates in decades have reignited a debate over the relative treatment of public and private workers. USA Today reported in March that federal workers earn substantially higher wages than private sector employees who work the same types of jobs.White House budget chief Peter Orszag responded that these pay differences merely reflect the superior skills of federal workers, not government largess. Adjusting for education and experience, he said, federal workers make about the same salaries as private workers.
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Why are government employees allowed to organize against we the taxpayers? I can understand when employees organized against the “greedy robber barons,” but it now appears the government employees are the greedy robbers and they are fleecing us.
Arnold finally came up with a brilliant idea cut all Calif. state workers to minimum wage sounds like a good plan for all government employees everywhere. I can hear them squealing already.
Would anyone buy the gov. “product” without compulsion?
What in the hell are you smoking? Private employees have to produce or get fired, government employees are lucky to have done anything productive.
There are government “workers”. There are only employees. Lower their obscene pensions and often bogus disability pensions. When is the last time anyone saw a government employee work hard? Hardly working more likely.
The “obscene” pensions went away with FERS. Government contractors typically make more.
I'd like the answer to that question too. Something is outrageously wrong with "the system," one that this administration is looking at as the model.
The increasing burden of government employees on taxpayers
Snip: Don’t shed too many tears for public employees, says Gary Clift, a 52-year-old Californian who speaks with an insider’s authority. Clift spent 26 years working for the state’s Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, retiring in 2006. He’s now collecting 78% of the $112,000 salary he earned before stepping down and full health care coverage for life. Clift is thinking about using some of the public’s largesse to write a book about the outrageous ways public employees milk California.
Over-generous retirement benefits bankrupting local governments
Snip: In San Francisco, I heard on a radio talk show, some employees retire with 90 percent of their regular salary. And in many cases in that city, employees did not even have to contribute to their retirement. There is a move afoot via a proposed ballot measure to change that. The move is to force employees to contribute and/or contribute more.
And the SEIU (union of government employees) is just another wing of the Democrat party:
“White House budget chief Peter Orszag responded that these pay differences merely reflect the superior skills of federal workers, not government largess.”
Where to begin? Superior skills at finding porn cites, calling in sick, filing injury claims/union grievances or bitching about how hard they work?
Federal unions are a pox upon our nation, engorging themselves at taxpayer expense. Here's a list:
The regime is in charge!
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