Posted on 05/04/2017 11:39:08 AM PDT by huldah1776
Out of touch special interests are manipulating government to their own benefit at the expense of average Americans. This popular sentiment has been leveled at politicians, lobbyists, and big businesses — and many of them are guilty — but there is one culprit in Washington taking advantage of the working-class that is too often ignored: government unions.
A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that federal government bureaucrats are compensated more generously than average Americans in the private sector, the people who actually fund government.
Worse yet, the discrepancy is largest for workers at the lower end of socioeconomic ladder: federal workers with no more than a high school education earned 34 percent more and their benefits were 93 percent higher than similar workers in the private sector, a significantly larger disparity than when comparing workers with higher levels of education.
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Changing the government employment status quo is imperative if Congress and President Trump are to live up to their promise to "drain the swamp." They should cut overly generous federal benefits packages and enact civil service reforms like those pushed by Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., which have saved more than $5 billion. In addition, Rep. Jody Hice's, R-Ga., Official Time Reform Act would significantly curb union official time, and Rep. Ted Budd's, R-N.C., National Paycheck Protection Act (endorsed by Americans for Prosperity) would end automatic dues deduction.
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I’ve never heard, “Drain the swamp”, coming from the swamp rats in Congress.
Congressmen should wear the logos of every organization that donates money to their election campaigns. They would look like NASCAR drivers, but their constituents should know who owns their congressman and who he/she really works for.
Yes, this is where the saboteurs come from, who built the swamp.
See IRS, as one fraction of the examples.
It occurs to me that if we cleaned their clock, collapsed the Union influence on the Hill, we could build the southern border wall.
This can be changed but the stinking unions are too big.
“In total, government employees are fired about one-third as often as private sector employees accountable to market forces. Would anyone argue that unaccountable federal bureaucrats are three times better employees than private sector workers? Likely not, but their jobs are much cushier anyway.”
Like we don’t know who paid for the 1T$ stimulus and who it went to.
LOL I thought of that, too. The devil is in the details.
Not sure what you mean by “too big”, but they are concentrated in places of influence when they are in the IRS swamp, and the EPA, for example.
Over all the Union has bled real membership, but who would know that, right? They are shrinking. Yet, they get loud and long media coverage, and, at the top the big bosses still produce big time for the Left.
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