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Trump Budget to Cut Federal Pensions
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| May 22, 2017
| Chris Edwards
Posted on 05/23/2017 11:58:43 AM PDT by abb
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To: mom4melody
‘I cam from 25 years in the private sector and it took ten years for my salary to catch up and benefits?’
You are the exception to the norm. A talented and genuine public servant. Most bureaucrats are in it for the money because they had no faith in the free market [or in their talent].
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posted on
05/23/2017 4:36:07 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...)
To: abb
There’ve got to be some missing labels on those.
Private sector average pay did not go up by 50% in 15 years. So what else goes into that? And why only 38k total compensation in 2000?
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posted on
05/23/2017 5:08:38 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: abb
We all know that Federal Workers are much different than those lowly Private Sector Workers. The comparison isn’t even close.
They are just better People overall. They are smarter, more deserving and they work so much harder than those stinky Private Sector types.
Really, it’s true.
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posted on
05/23/2017 5:16:33 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
To: abb
Is it all private sector jobs? Which if so is extremely weighted down by tons of minimum wage jobs. While I’m sure there are plenty of mail clerks in Government most jobs require a bigger skill set than your private sector minimum wage jobs.
To: abb
Just think of the average person working in government, e.g., social security and they’re getting 47% more than average employee in the private sector.
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posted on
05/23/2017 7:27:50 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: Almondjoy
There is definitely a kernel of truth here.
Over time the lower pay hands on jobs in maintenance and mail delivery, landscaping/mowing, operations of systems etc have been contracted out to give the appearance of reducing the government budget.
Thus those lower paid jobs are no longer in the government sector thereby in effect leaving only the higher paid functions to skew the average wage upward.
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posted on
05/23/2017 7:38:42 PM PDT
by
John Milner
(Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
To: abb
Indeed. The first task is to evaluate what they do, and determine whether it should even be done. Help the taxpayers. Cut the federal EXECUTIVE service by 50% or even 60%.
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posted on
05/25/2017 7:26:09 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
To: abb
Indeed. The first task is to evaluate what they do, and determine whether it should even be done. Help the taxpayers. Cut the federal EXECUTIVE service by 50% or even 60%.
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posted on
05/25/2017 7:26:15 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
To: combat_boots
A commendable but ultimately Sisyphean effort.
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posted on
05/26/2017 12:30:28 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
To: Trod Upon
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posted on
05/26/2017 12:34:02 PM PDT
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combat_boots
(God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
To: combat_boots
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posted on
05/26/2017 12:51:12 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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