[House Atreides]

Can Obama do this by Executive Order? Maybe "rule by Presidential decree" is becoming the new way of doing business in Washington/

[hummingbird]

"Obama Orders Pay Raise for Federal Employees"

All right!

Criminals...

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING thread BUMP! ONLY on FreeRepublic!

[windsorknot]

And who is going to pay for those pay raises? King BoRAT can’t help himself when it comes to spending other people’s money.

[marygam]

Please don’t tar and feather me for the question I’m about to ask, as I’m mentally fragile and the duck tape is not holding.

So staying home and not voting for the other candidate(who shall not be named) or protesting the stupidity of the Repubs and saying it doesn’t matter served us how?

I still think that we stood a chance of educating and changing minds if we all stuck together. Now, I don’t even care about this crap anymore. No need to get all nuts over this arrogance as there is nothing left to do but hunker down until they come for us. God,guns and ammo is all that we have left. And they are coming for that.
Pray

[RegulatorCountry]

About as in-your-face as it gets, decreeing a pay raise heading into first sequestration followed immediately by hitting the debt ceiling. Any sane head of state would be furloughing employees in noncritical areas and clamping down wherever possible, even symbolically. As much of a silly fool as Jimmy Carter was and is, at least he knew how badly it came across to the taxpaying private sector. Obama just floors it and dares anyone to say a thing. He’s really out of control. With not a soul willing to do anything about it, apparently.

[GeronL]

Has Congress abdicated the ability to spend money to the White House?

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[DesertRhino]

This was exactly what Nicolea Ceaucescu did when the crowd turned on him during his last speech. Obama is nothing but a dictator. Disgusting.

[marygam]

Please don’t tar and feather me for the question I’m about to ask, as I’m mentally fragile and the duck tape is not holding.

So staying home and not voting for the other candidate(who shall not be named) or protesting the stupidity of the Repubs and saying it doesn’t matter served us how?

I still think that we stood a chance of educating and changing minds if we all stuck together. Now, I don’t even care about this crap anymore. No need to get all nuts over this arrogance as there is nothing left to do but hunker down until they come for us. God,guns and ammo is all that we have left. And they are coming for that.
Pray

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

By the time my 5-10 yo grandkids come into their own, we'll be living in an out and out totalitarian dictatorship. It's being abornin' even as we watch.

Govt by decree and a cult of personality instead of representative democracy.

[unixfox]

SCREW THESE ASSHOLES!!

IT’S WAY PAST TIME FOR A TAX REVOLT!!

CAPS LOCK ON PURPOSE!!

[Casual]

Oh, it is only $11b over 10 years. Don’t worry about it.

[concerned about politics]

He has no problem spending other people money. He's done it his whole life. Once a scrounge - always a scrounge.

This is why Oboma is known as "The Welfare King". It's all he's ever known.

[deport]

The sequence of these EOs on federal pay goes back aways.. Here they are in sequence starting with Obama’s today EO and through the Bush years..

Todays EO
http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2012/2013PAY_Attach.pdf

Executive Order 13594 of December 19, 2011, ..
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13594

Executive Order 13561 of December 22, 2010 ..
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13561

Executive Order 13525 of December 23, 2009 ..
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13525

Executive Order 13483 of December 18, 2008 ..
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13483

Executive Order 13454 of January 4, 2008,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13454

Executive Order 13420 of December 21, 2006,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13420

Executive Order 13393 of December 22, 2005
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13393

Executive Order 13368 of December 30, 2004
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13368

Executive Order 13322 of December 30, 2003
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13332

Executive Order 13282 of December 31, 2002, as amended by Executive Order 13291 of March 21, 2003,

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13322
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13291

Executive Order 13182 of December 23, 2000
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13182

Executive Order 13144 of December 21, 1999
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13144

[Wisconsinlady]

I WISH we had a pay freeze! My husband had his pay CUT by 20% four years ago and we have had to adjust to that since then. We have never seen any of that come back and don’t expect to anytime soon.

[EBH]

You know what...

It is time, way past time, but now is as good as time as any....

I say we shove them over the fiscal cliff and shut the suckers down!!!

[a fool in paradise]

He’s not up to being a dictator, just a dick.

I had to suffer with a 1/3 pay CUT under his reign of error. NO RAISES for federal employees. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT.

[a fool in paradise]

One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden.

Does this mean that Joe Biden is no longer in the middle class as he repeatedly told voters at rallies in 2012?

[Washi]

Yeah, why not?

It's not real money anymore anyway.

[Sirius Lee]

I don't understand. His administration is rewriting the rules for measuring the CPI to show that there is no inflation. The new rules make the assumption that as people can no longer afford steak, they will switch to chicken, and those who can no longer afford chicken will switch to spam, and those for whom spam is now out of reach can eat cake, so see? No inflation.

Given that there's no inflation, what is the rationale for a federal worker pay increase? Sure as sh*t the seniors aren't going to see any COLA.