[hoyt-clagwell]

I truly don’t get what you are talking about. Our Secretaries are getting 28,000 a year. One gets 32,000 a year because she has over 30 years. I don’t see anybody getting rich on their sacrifice.

It has been proven fed gov't employees pay is way higher than the private sector for the comparable job. You are also leaving out the generous benefit package.

[napscoordinator]

Generous benefit? Ok they pay health insurance, they get three weeks vacation (many in the private sector do as well), they do NOT get a check for the rest of their lives much to the ignorance of Freepers), they are in a 401K program known as TSP and are matched 5 percent. They do NOT get dental. What is this crazy talk that people spout. Now if you are talking about the ancient folks still in the system then yes they do have the bennies, but that all changed in 1987....so for the last 23 years things are not that great for these folks. The worst generation in history is the Baby Boomers BTW. Thank God I am a Gen Xer.

[Getsmart64]

generous benefit package

Generous my azz....as a gub'mint employee...I pay for my benefits....the system helps with those benefits but they are FAR from generous....

[OldGoatCPO]

Obviously you are not a fed employee, I am, I pay more for my benefits than my wife who is a nurse for a private sector clinic. I can not believe this crap on a conservative blog.

[OldGoatCPO]

Obviously you are not a fed employee, I am, I pay more for my benefits than my wife who is a nurse for a private sector clinic. I can not believe this crap on a conservative blog.

[OldGoatCPO]

Obviously you are not a fed employee, I am, I pay more for my benefits than my wife who is a nurse for a private sector clinic. I can not believe this crap on a conservative blog.

[mom4melody]

I don’t know what you are talking about either. And I suspect, neither do you.

Fed bennies suck compared to large companies in private sector.

If you happen to work for a small business that doesn’t provide benefits, that’s your choice.