“Federal and postal employees...struggling during these tough times just like other Americans,” the group wrote”
I’m all out of patience for liars so, f-off.
In the last three three years Federal Workers got zero raise and were required to contribute more to their retirement. In that time inflation was 3.16 % 2010, 1.64 % 2011 and will be around 2.5% 2012. That means Fed Employee real salary has decreased over 7%. They were also required to contribute more to their pensions (an additional 1.5%) so the real salary has gone down about 8.5%. Also, the Federal health benefits program is NOT exempted from Obama care. Like many of you the amount allowed in Health Savings account was significantly cut this year by Obama care. While I realize no one is crying for the federal worker it is true that they too are feeling the squeeze of this economy. White Collar Federal worker make a lot less than civilian employees:
“The data show that employees on average are more than 40 percent behind in San Francisco-San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles and New York.”
http://www.washingtonpost.
com/politics/decision2012/pay-gap-widens-for-federal-workers-panel-says/2012/10/19/b47b2f6a-1a15-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_story.html