“Federal accountants, for example, perform more complex work requiring more skill than in the private sector, she said.”
I see, all those CPAs out there in the private sector are just a bunch of over paid under informed dopes who merely put their eye shades on and pencil in numbers on huge columner pads. Right! Meanwhile, the CPAs in the private sector are paid by what they do, not by how long there have been there.
If Federal employees got a 10% or 15% pay cut how many do you think would actually quit and try to make a living in the private sector? The answer is less than 1%.
Most Federal employees have it very easy and get very generous salaries and benefits. Most of them produce little or nothing that benefits to our society. They are an enormous burden on our country and we can’t afford it any more.
Duuuhhhh...!
The best thing to do would be to get some honest people to do a complete evaluation of every govt agency and individual office. That way the time-servers and criminals could be detected and fired. There are a lot of govt employees who are conscientious after all. The problem is that usually cuts are left to the agency “managers”. The “management” is the most corrupt part of the govt. If those clowns make the cuts they will get rid of the few good people and keep the worthless ones. I know. I worked for the DoD and saw this during the 1990 RIF. At Hill AFB hundreds of good mechanics when out the gate while the 1000+ paper pushers that lost their high GS positions were given phony new jobs like “mail deliverer” and they kept their high salaries on “save pay”. Disgusting.
Then there’s the decrepit facilities for the maintenance people while the administration offices get new furniture and fancy break rooms. Corrupt.. corrupt.. corrupt.
Or, perhaps...
The drones debate on...