Posted on 07/21/2017 7:52:09 AM PDT by freedumb2003
House Republicans greeted current and future federal employees with two controversial body blows in recent days — one amounts to a pay cut and the other would allow new feds to be fired for “no cause at all.”
The House Budget Committee approved a spending plan that would save the government $163.5 billion over 10 years by taking that amount from federal employees.
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Republicans call their plan “Building a Better America.” But the Americans now working to build a better country through their federal jobs would be called on to sacrifice again, as they have repeatedly over the years.
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This represents no understanding that civil service protections are designed to protect not just staffers, but also the public from a government bureaucracy riven with political favoritism, as was the case under the spoils system. Even members of Congress eager to fire feds faster must know that this drastic proposal runs afoul of a basic and long-standing principle that says government staffers should be protected from willy-nilly punishment by political operatives.
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“Congress and the administration cannot balance the federal budget on the backs of our federal workers,” said one of the letter signers, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), after the House plan was released Tuesday. “Many of our federal employees work at the CIA, Pentagon, FBI, law enforcement, homeland security and intelligence agencies. They and our federal workforce are dedicated hard-working professionals who work day and night to protect our homeland and national security, cure diseases, and provide services that help the American people.”
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“This is a plan that the entire House Republican Conference can support,” Black said after her committee advanced the legislation. “I look forward to passage on the House floor.”
Feds look forward with dread.
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One of the ‘practices’ in our government agencies is that the more people you have under you, the more you must be paid.
That is why they create so many positions and have so much dead wood.
The other ‘practice’ is that if you don’t spend your entire budget AND MORE, your budget will be cut. At the end of the fiscal year, they have a ‘buying’ spree where everyone orders junk they don’t really need, to ensure that they go ‘over budget’.
Insider tip: The politicians favorite 'investment' is.... Abortion Clinics.
I would start with a 50% cut on all flag officers. Then work on useless departments such as the trans-gender integration office (or whatever it is called).
But not as much on COLA. If I could still buy a 1960's size Hershey bar for 10 cents, I'd agree.
But as long as Congress lets the Fed drive the dollar down to trash, the COLA is needed as a bandaid on the problem of inflation.
Yes that is a very nice thought, however it puts the onus on taxpayers to pay increased taxes to keep upping SS and GVT Pensions. Which kind of makes for a self eating watermelon where prices go up because taxes increased to pay pension COLA.
I think that these pensions should be viewed as annuities (i.e., a fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life). It is incumbent on the individual to take steps to cover inflation.
One way I am covering inflation is I converted an IRA to an annuity, so I get that fixed amount every month. But I know several guys here in Thailand where they only have SS because they believe in the Government umbrella.
Decertify the mafia/government unions, and fire the 80% of federal “workers” who are do-nothing drones.
How big is the federal payroll anyway?
A quick Google says about 3 million non-military Federal employees. Assuming a median salary of $60K a year ($50+bennies) gives an annual salary cost of $180 million or a fifth of a trillion dollars (probably much more).
Not counting full-time contractors, the number of which no one knows b/c contractors are expense items (or capitalized as part of a larger contract) and no different that computers or desk chairs as far as accounting is concerned.
$60K!
You’d better at least double that.
The poverty stricken State of Maine has several single-spaced pages of RAT paycheck recipients (I am loath to call them workers) earning more than that. That’s about what mid-level staffers at the Statehouse get.
And when you speak of bennies....they generally equal double or triple the pay rate.
The do-nothing bureaucRATs and other public “employee” lay-abouts and no-show parasites are the ultimate welfare class.
Their main function is to stand by for a year, and then become a fully paid, professional campaign staff for the RATs at election time.
Only at election time.
and cast out demons
Only if they're Republicans....(and not actually demons)
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