Posted on 02/15/2011 12:11:43 PM PST by Qbert
Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday if some federal workers lose jobs because of Republican-proposed spending cuts, "so be it." But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was quick to say "not so be it."
"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it," Boehner said during a news conference with reporters at the Republican National Committee. "We're broke! It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money."
Boehner, who was joined by other House Republican leaders, criticized the President's budget proposal for not cutting enough and said Republicans would address entitlement reform when they release their budget blueprint this spring.
"Republicans will not punt," said Boehner. "Everything's on the table. We will put forward a budget that deals with the big challenges that face our country…I have no doubts that all of these issues [Social Security and Medicare] will be on the table."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seized on Boehner's comments in a speech on the floor, saying Republicans' proposed cuts would leave many in the cold.
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119 percent.
Hey Federal workers.”hang in there!”
Wrong. I know that the civil servants working at the bases near me vote mostly republican.
If SOME???!!!???.........how about half???
Not all contractor overhead rates are that high. When I was in private consulting my indirect cost rate was 45% of direct costs. Sure, I included fringe benefits because those are a cost of doing business when you hire people, but the multiplier I used was 21% TDC. I generally charged 8.9% G&A.
OTOH, the government-employed contract monitor I had to work with on one program I swear only knew how to ask two questions: How long is it going to take?, and How much is it going to cost? We called it the HoLoHoMu syndrome. Technically, we was as useless as tits on a boar hog.
21 percent of TDC is a miracle now a days.
Since a good part of my job is doing price to win analysis, I have a fairly good idea of the indirects of the big contractors around the beltway. You are looking at multipliers now approaching 2.9 to as high as 3.5 in some cases!! The worst are actually on the civil side, EPA, DOE, HHS contractors. They are consistantly in the 3.0 plus range
“Wrong. I know that the civil servants working at the bases near me vote mostly republican.”
Well, I guess that lone, personal example settles it... (/sarc)
Good!!!
“119 percent.”
Don’t count DoD employees in on that 119%. Most DoD employees are conservative.
Well, well, well. Welcome to the party Mr. Boehner. The Governor or NJ has been taking on the public workers and their unions and it is resonating with the voters. About time you folks in DC stopped thinking every good idea must come from within the Beltway and instead start looking to where the real leadership of the Republican Party is residing (at the State level).
Anyone else remember Ronald Reagan’s RIFs (Reductions in Force) for Federal employees in the early 80’s?
It is not a 'lone personal example'. There are a lot of good conservative republicans working at our military bases as civil servants. And this is true throughout the U.S.
“I wonder what percentage of Federal employees vote democrat?”
Don’t know the totals, but I’m sure it largely goes with the territory.
I still say "fire" the welfare leeches before anyone else. People who do no work and still get paid should be at the head of the line when it comes to being "fired" from the public dole.
“The system is working” - Jugnut Nepalitano
We’re talking about the entire Federal government- not simply the military.
>We need to cut hundreds of billions from the budget.
1) 1.5 trillion was added by Obama
2) Bush was 500 billion over
Therefore) 2 trillion in reductions gets us to the point of “deficit not growing”.
THEN, the “cuts” into the 14 trillion debt begin.
That I certainly feel we can all agree on.
Reducing the size of this government would take me a mere matter of minutes, in particular with the leeches in DC that add no productive value to the taxpayer
Judging from November... When you unemploy Americans they get Teaparty religion and elect more grownups to jumpstart the economy.
The Dems are so predictable.
We are dead busted broke. The spending has to stopped. Healthcare must have a stake driven through its chest.
No more.
Good for Mr. Boehner.
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