Posted on 07/06/2014 1:21:43 PM PDT by PoloSec
The Office of Personnel Management maintains a list of the amount of civilian workers that each branch of the government has, in addition to their salary amounts. Although it does not mention individuals by name nor their positions, the numbers are quite surprising when the data is adjusted for an annual income of $180,000 or more.
Some facts to consider:
Note again that this list is of civilian workers — no members of the military are included; neither does it include the Judiciary Branch or congressional staff. By way of contrast, the percentage of those earning more than $180,000 at the Department of Defense, the largest agency of the government, is just under 1/2%.
Historically, the idea of working for the government included a trade off of sorts: a reduction in income relative to private industry in exchange for increased job security and benefits. It seems as though that reality has changed.
Given the scandal at the VA over wait times and patient care, one must wonder what all of these high-paid individuals are doing. One thing we do know is that the VA has paid over $200 million in wrongful death payments and an additional $645 million in medical malpractice since 2001.
A reasonable conclusion would be that these thousands of high-income individuals are doing something other than actually earning their pay.
What is dismaying is first, that we set up a cabinet-level agency to subject our veterans to the "benefits" of socialized medicine, and second that living in The Era of Bad Stewards, hospital administrators -- ostensibly fiduciaries for the general public, or the shareholders, or for a group of physicians -- have, like their counterparts in commerce, finance and academe, contrived to pay themselves vastly more than the people who actually do the job over which the administrators have fiduciary responsibility.
Eighty years of appointing judges, expanding agencies, creating agencies, and squashing anyone who disagrees with them is paying off now with King Barry ruling by Executive order while whipped dogs in the Republican Party are afraid to rock the boat by doing anything about it because they can't believe they'll be the majority for very long.
If they retain control a few more election cycles some of them will probably grow a pair but then again, look at what happens when any Republican is targeted by the democrat media machine. Their own "supporters" swallow every lie the democrat machine spews out and tears them up instead of standing by them the way democrats stand by their own. You can call it "principled" to go along with democrat fascists targeting anyone who is a thorn in their side all you like but in reality it's a self-defeating psychosis just like a beaten wife enabling the husband that beats her.
Face it, the democrat fascists have had a long term approach and Conservatives couldn't even agree that "Anyone But Obama" was a good enough reason to vote the traitorous wretch King Barry out of a second term.
US Conservatives have "glorious", "idealistic", "higher morality", excuses for doing nothing while democrats will take every quarter inch they can get down and grub for.
Which approach leads to political victories in the real world and which leads to glorious serfdom is obvious.
JMHO
“I don’t think there are very many MDs in DOT - that’s 3% of the workforce!”
Probably Engineers, they don’t come cheap either.
Lifetime pensions.
Free healthcare.
401ks
Cash out unused vacation when retired.
9-5, not a minute more.
Likely 4-8 wks vacay each year.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Socialism is unsustainable…(we’re broke)…
DEFUND/DISMANTLE BIG GOVERNMENT
$top the debt clock. Reverse it, eliminating debt and going to surplus then reduce taxes.
No. Working engineers at DOT earn 80,000.00 to 90,000.00
More than than many civilian engineers who “do” the actual work. These are ALL administrators. Ain’t calculator or CAD system in the bunch.
Boat load of spreadsheets and inspection forms though. HR and PhD weanies.
How about considering ending the VA medical system and just giving eligible Vets free access to any civilian medical facility they choose.
IMHO, as long as these are government run hospitals, they will always be substandard in quality and overly expensive.
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Actually NOW...they are equal to and in many cases better than priv hospitals.their outpatient care-—IF STAFFED ADEQUATELY—is far better than private care.
Actually NOW...they are equal to and in many cases better than priv hospitals.their outpatient care-—IF STAFFED ADEQUATELY—is far better than private care.
Vacareers.va.gov says that there are over 14,000 physicians working for the VA.
I’d assume that the other’s are senior administrators. It may be robbery (esp given the care and list scandals) but senior hospital administrators in the private sector can make salaries in the mid to high six figures.
I’m not a techy, and not sure what you are saying, the site allows full content to be copied and pasted (at least here on FR) it was allowed, I know the image is not as clear as it could be, but readable. I did not get an access denied message and I did not do anything to force copying the image, did I do something wrong in copying the chart?
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VA180orMore.png?56ba87
but I was not able (and still don't) see the image in your post. The address above is what I get when I open the (broken) image in a new tab.
I don't think you did anything wrong copying the chart, I've seen this before from this site.
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