Posted on 01/01/2010 4:20:05 PM PST by ricks_place
Americans finally getting fed up with big-government foul-ups
TEMECULA, Calif. - Where is Nelson Mandela when we need him? In the fine new film "Invictus," South Africa's first black president inspects his first official paycheck. "This is terrible," Mr. Mandela says. He decides he earns too much and subsequently donates a third of his salary to charity.
Mr. Mandela's humility and fiscal restraint would be as exotic in the nation's capital as a giraffe atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Washington's lavish self-aggrandizement and relentless march toward bankruptcy cruelly mock Mr. Mandela's sacrifice.
Today's thoughtless and corrosive spend-o-rama began under a Republican Congress and the feckless Bush-Rove administration. Alas, a Democratic White House and Congress briskly outspend their predecessors.
In stunning contrast to Mr. Mandela's example, Congress carpet-bombs taxpayer dollars on greedy federal bureaucrats - even as Americans struggle, and often fail, to pay their mortgages and rents.
Between December 2007 and June 2009, USA Today reported on Dec. 10, federal employees earning more than $100,000 annually increased 46 percent to 382,758. Those making more than $150,000 rose 119 percent to 66,538. Only one Transportation Department employee scored more than $170,000 as the recession began. By last June, that number had soared to 1,690.
Federal indulgence and incompetence are too vast to catalogue. But these illustrations are sufficiently maddening.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
More proof that you’re right. If your predictions come true this year, you should buy a crystal ball and charge top dollar!
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That’s the short list. There is much, much more that can be added.
LOL Go Red.....
I’m trying to get my hands around the fact that “public servants” are earning 2 to 3 times the median HOUSEHOLD income of US citizens!
Something is horribly wrong with our government.
public service is more appropriately described as public gouging. The suggestion that congress and other gov’t employees are serving anyone but themselves is preposterous
Dont forget the Congressional BRIBES to Louisiana and Nebraska for their healthcare votes.
There won’t be a “revolt”, but there will be an event.
The government needs one now more than ever. This transcends the two-party system facade.
A conventional war would be “perfect” right now.
That, or they will wreck this country completely to raise up a one-world communist government.
It is one, or the other at this point—either way, many will die.
This is a serious understatement. If the founding fathers were still around the revolution would already be over and the trash in Washington would have already been taken out.
The elections will provide little or no relief. Most of those responsible for gov't outrages will still be in office after the elections and the majority of those replacing incumbents will turn out to be at least as inept or corrupt.
I was revolted long before we got to 2010.
The collapse is coming. The states will declare DC null and void.
Nothing horribly went wrong, it reflects changing times in the private sector due to globalism and free trade. The proper comparison is majority of fed workers are technical and office workers. Compare that pay ratio to its equivalent counterpart in private sector the pay ratio drops to below 2 to 1. Add the fact more than 2/3 of the fed workforce is over 50 years old or on the job for 20+ years, the pay increases and COLA will add up. Compatible comparisons and the ratio is about even. The numbers get tricky with senior management. Consider the number of workers, number of facilities and budgets they are responsible for the senior management of many agencies are equivalent to corporate America. There are no multi million dollar salaries execs in the government. If you factor this into the comparison, the fed pay is below private sector.
Private industry is mainly young and in their 30’s, people do not work in the same place to accrue larger salaries because private industry will fire anyone who stays too long and replace them with lower cost college grads. Now add offshoring jobs and H-1B worker to the mix, and suddenly the higher paying private sector is now lagging and falling behind the public sector because no one can stay in the same job long enough.
Government jobs were always available to college grads and private workers to apply, but during booming times no one wanted it because they could make more in the private sector. Fast foward 20 years, the government entry level worker is like the turtle in the rabbit and hare fable. Time in job is what allows the fed to attain a higher salary while the private sector worker goes thru a saber tooth salary pattern. What I mean is there are events in the private sector that is beyond the control of the private sector worker. Example merger and acquisitions can force layoffs, the worker laid off must find another job and many times he/she must start slightly lower to prove themselves in the new company before they recover the salary loss of the last job, and before that person can stay long enough, another crisis occurs and the company will layoff workers and the person will start the whole process all over, loss salary, reprove worth in new company, recover salary, start to progress and then another crisis hits and the process starts all over again. This is why it is call a saber tooth career and salary pattern. This will end when the worker approaches late 40’s and age discrimination kicks in as companies want a young and vibrant image, and a college kid with the latest knowledge and lower salary can displace the older workers. Now the older tech/office worker, if lucky can find a job to finish his career, and such job is usually in a smaller company that pays about 1/3 less with little or no benefits.
The only way a private sector worker can avoid this fate is to make it into management, especially in the executive inner management and staff where your CEO patron can screw up and everyone still gets a bonus and be shielded from layoffs.
That's what I keep saying to all the Secessionists on this board - it'd be infinitely easier for the individual states to just kick the sonsofbitches out of the Union. Barricade 'em inside the Beltway, and take a can of bug spray to anything that tries to slither back out.
A nice long siege. They let Terry Shiavo starve. Ya reap what you sow. The message will get sent.
Always remember the DEMS took Congress in 2006, When discussing the recession and spending increases. Don’t let them blame 2006 through 2008 spending on Bush.
The states have enormous latent power.
But the average state legislator is WORSE, not better, than the average Member of Congress, and the chances that elected state officials will act against Federal authority are, at present, near zero.
http://plaintruthmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/06/stop-terrorist-nelson-mandela.html
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