Posted on 11/22/2016 3:57:27 AM PST by Libloather
Donald Trump and his Republican allies are 'ready to slash the federal work force, impose hiring freezes and halt automatic pay raises'
If President-elect Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues in Congress have their way, government employees will be easier to fire and they will have their pensions reduced, aides and lawmakers say.
The incoming administration and its allies on Capitol Hill are planning to try and trim the public sector work force, in line with campaign promises to roll back government benefits, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
With Republicans in control of both houses of the legislature as well as the executive branch, they now have a chance to enact reforms which federal employees once thought they were immune from, including lower pensions, hiring freezes, a halt to automatic raises, and a crackdown on publicly funded union business.
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Which means that reducing the Federal workforce by 5% might turn Virginia red again.
I would also consider that the only reason this doesn't hold true for PhDs is that many PhD holders work for universities where the nearly universal access to student loans has upwardly distorted the salaries of college professors.
Those Freepers can join other Freepers who lost their jobs in the last 8 years. The stats don’t back up your statement.
Pray America woke
Some of the richest counties in the USA are the ones around Washington D.C.
I follow the media business as in radio and for many years the leading radio station in terms of ad revenue nationwide has been in Washington D.C. instead of bigger markets like NY, LA, Chicago.......
The taxpayers are subsidizing a pocket of elite wealth in and around Washington D.C.
Great idea but must be addressed in a thorough manner that considers blocking creative funding possibilities. For example, some years back the state was in the process of being trimmed in a similar way. The local state building felt it needed a geek and bought my contract. The intent was to keep me in my role until freezes were suspended then hire me directly. Until that time would come, I was from a budget perspective not personnel, I was “equipment”.
You said significantly, the difference is marginal between educated workers even in this data set, and as I stated this data is biased by inclusion of the admitted higher fed pay before 2010 when federal wage and hiring freezes began. There is no data more current, but anecdotally contractor pay is now higher in the RDT&E domain.
Actually the majority of private sector PhDs are doing post-docs or other poorly compensated work, which should make the private sector lower than fed; the problem is the metric-— they are not using median salary, they are using mean which is distorted by the very high earners in the private sector.
Most are contractors, cutting the federal workforce will do nothing. The federal contractors are larger and in more control of the federal government. If you’ve been to DC the number of opulent office buildings are a give away. The shadow government is where the money is.
At least sack the 40% who watch porn all day and cash big checks for doing nothing useful. Too bad we can’t take away their cushy retirements too. Future federal retirement benefits should be trimmed to match what employees in the private sector get, and that should be done in the NEXT YEAR, before Congress starts running for election in 2018.
The bonuses this Christmas will be the last for a while.
They need to start with the Department of “Justice” who told Denver that there were too many Americans working for the Sheriff’s office and that they needed to hire more illegal aliens. If I was Trump, I’d be personally deliver “bankers boxes” to each one of those bastards and escort them from the building.
Go Trump!
Nothing stops federal employees from taking early Social Security retirement if they choose. Of course, staying until full retirement age is generally attractive if you like your job.
In addition to regular Social Security, federal employees have a voluntary thrift savings plan (the TSP), which is a very standard 401(k) type plan, plus a basic pension calculated on the basis of one percent of your high-three times years of service. If you were making $100,000 in your last three years of service, and worked under FERS for 30 years, your basic pension would be $30,000. Plus whatever you put into the TSP. Plus Social Security.
The problem is the growth of government. How many new, private-sector jobs does it take to finance a single government (any level) job? Obama’s administration was gung-ho in launching new regulations requiring more (read: new) gov’t employees. Were new private-sector jobs created to cover the expansion? Nope. We just borrowed more money. Personally, I think there ought to be a limit on how long any hired government employee can work in the government sector.
Welcome to the party pal
Amen, if an agency such as the Department of Education is found by the American people to be Un-necessary or Harmful to America it should be closed.
Employees should be given severance and that should be that!
All Freepers will lament ANY Freeper losing his or her job.
To wish that people lose their livelihood just because they work for Uncle Sam is cruel.
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When their livelihood is crushing the rest of us I’m all for them losing their extravagantly paid positions.
For all my life I’ve been treated to libs proclaiming how necessary and extraordinarily talented everyone that works for the fedgov is... and how they are underpaid despite all the benefits , paid pensions , paid sick time and such they have in addition to being paid double what anyone doing a similar job in the private sector would earn.
If they’re so damn valuable then they should be happy to be set free to earn what they’re really worth.
Retired Fed here. Fortunately, my pension is locked in. But I do wonder whether they’ll change the pension formula for future new hires.
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Pensions should be eliminated for fedgov hires ,, 401k’s (403’s) like all the rest of us.
the wage freeze since 2010 has hurt government scientists and engineers much worse than the private sector
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just more BS self serving gov’t stats .. come join us in the real world.
DECERTIFY!
(the “public” unions)
Kill ‘em dead.
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