[mdittmar]

Well,we are their boss,and seeing as we are 17,488,395,174,401.72 trillion dollars in debt.I would have to say,sorry,we're broke.

[ImNotLying]

They will cut military pay and benefits and defense spending enough to make sure these union workers can get their 3.3% increase.

[Terry L Smith]

Every stinking ‘federal brat and bratess’ that works for all those lovely IRS, ATF, USDA, V.A. and TSA agencies, just squealed while at the teat, that YOU, John/Jane Q. Public, are forced to pay, to support.

[GladesGuru]

Cut all non-military salaries 20%.

All I want is the hankie franchise - ‘cause Libtards will be buying lots of them to wring and stomp on.

[Bryanw92]

My company has had 4 record-breaking years in a row for profitability, yet the hourly employees have received 1.5% TOTAL since 2008—and we’re doing better than just about any other hourly, non-federal employee in this city.

Giving raises to any federal employee is a kick in the face to all taxpayers.

[darkwing104]

Before the pols reform military pay and benefit they first should look at Federal Employees...Theirs is much larger than the military's could ever be.

Unions can go to hell. They only exist to protect the incompetent.

[Zuse]

They almost all get performance bonuses too!

[Dapper 26]

Appointed Senator Schatz from the Socialist Republic of Hawaii is doing what he was sent there to do - take care of the unions, screw the country.

[blueplum]

it is a conflict of interest for government employees to be unionized

[logi_cal869]

Heaven forbid federal employees see their “standard of living deteriorate”...

(expressive colorful metaphors self-censored...use your imagination)

I gotta go yell at something now...