Dems vow: No more cuts for federal workers ("discrimination" against RAT voters)

The Hill ^ | 2/29/12 | Mike Lillis

[Crazieman]

Dittos, I’m a postal clerk. The crap I see every single day amazes.

[Doctor 2Brains]

What do you think, genius?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No.

But that is ok, according to some on this board all military retirees are millionaires.

[Greenpees]

...But they have no problem raising retired military medical premiums by nearly 100%

[samadams2000]

Whomever is keeping the list please make sure that clown hoyer is in the top 10.

[Reily]

I guess you do!

[bimboeruption]

America is Reginald Denny and the Democrats are the L.A. Four.

[Doctor 2Brains]

That’s cause you’re so smart, AND a government loving liberal, I might add.

[Reily]

yeah that's the ticket!....go with that!

[Doctor 2Brains]

Yeah, the 1st time I was in, I was politically unaware, and doing NOTHING but chasing girls, and I was working for DOD, so I didn’t notice much, but now!!!! Good God! If you ain’t worked for the G, I simply don’t believe that you can grasp the horror of it all.

[Doctor 2Brains]

YOU ARE A LIBERAL. You might be a liberal if you get upset when somebody refers to govermnent workers as bums. YOU ARE A LIBERAL.

[Reily]

You got the brains! In fact you got two!
So it must be true!
You am I to argue.

[Doctor 2Brains]

That’s actually pretty good. ‘Course I’m on my 3rd beer...

[goodnesswins]

YES...entitlements are the problem...but, what would happen to all those FED employees who FEED the entitled their bennies, and take care of them, and manage them, and administrate them, and PUSH their programs so there are MORE entitlements....????

[Reily]

Should be “Who am I to argue!”

too tired to continue the argument in any cogent form

[muawiyah]

The theory is that if you whack the employees then the government can't spend money.

That, of course, is a remarkably stupid belief. Social Security, for instance, is operated mostly by the computers!

Now, are entitlements the problem? Depends on what you mean by an entitlement.

The problem is SPENDING.

[Reily]

The entitlement programs that are going to eventually eat up all future federal budgets like a giant demonic pacman is social security, medicare, medicaid, student loans as well as all the federal guarantees such as on mortgages, etc. None of these were advocated corporately by federal employees (meaning as a group!). I guess AFMSCE does advocate them now, but most of these have been in place long before there was any federal employee's union. These looming economic Armageddons were sold as “solutions” (usually to minor or nonexistent problems!) to the public at large and embraced for the most part enthusiastically.
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All this ranting people do here about government employees I guess makes the ranters feel good, but the problem is the “something-for-nothing” views of a majority of the voters. Primarily its as Pogo put it, "We have met the enemy and it is us!"

[vette6387]

“I watched the MD delegation defend high living off the government LIVE on C-Span. I was enraged at their arrogance, their air of superiority over the rest of America.”

And we all thought Illinois is bad! The People’s Republic of Maryland it essentially Washington D.C.’s bedroom. Take the USPO. They need to lay off at least 250,000 people! Unfortunately, those who are RIFed, will continue to live off the rest of us on pensions/medical benefits that are way out of line until they pass.

[vette6387]

“So 1.8% of the population (in WA State) gets gold plated coverage and everyone else gets ObamaCare.”

But not for long!! And we thought things here in California were bad! In reality, this is probably the same metric you will find in most of the states. It is unsustainable as you pointed out. The states will go bankrupt irrespective of what the Constitution says. When the money is gone, it’s gone!

[robowombat]

I have never understood the presumption that feds are donkey voters that politicians of both parties and most Freepers seem to take for granted. Something like 70% of feds work for DOD, Homeland Security and Justice. These are not agencies that harbor many social justice liberals. The overwhelming majority of feds I worked with for both Army and USAF were middle aged white males and they did were mostly in no sense liberals. The fed si-called unions mentioned here are joke organizations with no collective bargaining rights that matter in any way. The Dems don't want real unionization of the federal government anymore than the GOP. This is more inside the beltway theatrics.