11/29 Yup it's those darn terrorists... (not those tax cuts at all...)
http://www.kstp.com/article/view/62595
\_ At least the president was able to find money for his own $200k
pay raise, and $60k/year increase for each conressman, even if the
$186/year for the average worker was out of reach. Funny, the
total cost of the two packages is on the same order of magnitude.
Congress and the White House could have saved half the pay raise
of the average worker by forgoing lining their own pockets...
\_ Sorry. The across the board pay raise would cost $11 billion
using the 1990 plan outline, and $13 billion using the 1997
additions Clinton was able to afford. The total salary of
the congress doesn't measure up even close to that. That
said, blaming this on terrorist rather than the failed
economic policies and general economic depression is a
blantly self-serving deception. -mel
\_ idiot. the tax cuts have nothing to do with it. they're so tiny
compared to the size of the federal budget. get a clue before
mouthing off stupidly. better to keep one's stupidity to one's self
than open one's stupid ignorant mouth and demonstrate one's idiocy.
\_ *sniff* *sniff* Poor overpaid, lazy goverment workers. Never
do get a fair break.
\_ overpaid? where? have you compared civil servant salaries
to the private sector counterparts? Or are you talking straight
from your ass again?
\_ no bonus, no raises, 60k/year pretax for 8 years experience
doing systems development work. name the employer.
answer posted on monday.
\_ they get paid for what they do. people in the private sector
have to actually work sometimes to earn their money. this is
something a government worker bee slacker troll like you can't
understand. work isn't something you'd know how to do. the
people in private sector are lucky to have jobs right now.
no one is bitching about not getting a bonus for god's sake.
you're so selfish and ignorant and greedy it makes me sick.
go back to surfing and stop insulting people who actually do
work for a living. when the federal government slackers are
at risk for random layoffs, no raises, no pensions, no bonuses
and have to actually put in an hour's worth of work a month to
suck money from my pocket then they'll have something to whine
about. they get low pay because they don't fucking work.
\_ I've typically gotten excellent service when dealing with
federal employees.
\_ Hate to tell you this, but federal 'slackers' *are* subject
to layoffs. They call them Reduction In Force. Of course,
they make an effort to find you a job somewhere else, like
maybe, Alaska, if you're willing to move. Furthermore,
I'd bet that gov't workers have about the same ratio of
people who work hard to slackers. It seems to me like a
6 to 1 ratio of people who work to people who are worthless.
If the govt workers don't work efficiently enough for you
it's probably because they're hobbled by extreme red tape.
Also, fed workers don't get pensions anymore, they get
social security, like everyone else, no sweet
retirement pensions, and they'll match your contribution
to your retirement savings account up to 4.5% of your
salary
\_ Except this is exactly what Presidents / Congress have done
since 1990. Exactly how does one 'slash a pay raise'?
AP is full of stupid liberals. Of course this won't change
much, Bush is more pro-big government than Clinton.
\_ Not true. This is the first time in history that the
'serious economic conditions' rule was ever invoked. Note
The it completely eliminates cost of living adjustments in
New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Sounds like a punishment
for voting against him. |
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