Posted on 11/14/2014 5:09:18 PM PST by mdittmar
The incoming chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has been outspoken about his plans to cut federal employees’ pay and pensions. Besides his previous proposal, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin spoke with the Washington Post this week and discussed what he wants to do when he takes over the committee in January. On his chopping block are federal employees’ pay, health insurance, pensions, and the right to join a union.
“I think it’s unrealistic for public-service employees to believe they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages,” said Sen. Johnson, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He went on to say “those things in the private sector have been modified dramatically.”
It’s important to note that a pension is delayed payment for work already done, a condition for taking a job. It’s the employee’s money withheld and invested by the employer to be paid at the employee’s retirement when he/she can no longer work. If the employer cuts the employee’s pension, that means the employer has either embezzled or misspent the employee’s money. The employer is engaging in theft. The same is true for health care.
Obviously inspired by Walmart, Johnson also takes aim at federal employees’ worker protections and the freedom of association. He told the Post, “I really don’t think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.” So the senator wants federal employees to take whatever compensation their employer offers, most likely with ever changing work schedules, no guaranteed overtime pay, and little or no medical care and pension. He appears to oppose the idea of fairness, justice, equality, opportunity, and prosperity. Without a union, employees are basically slaves to their employer.
Meanwhile, Johnson supports massive tax giveaways for corporations and blocked a bill that would end tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. But he voted against a bill that would end the government shutdown, blocked a bill that would help veterans find good jobs and get the health care they need, voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, voted against a bill that would provide employment protections to gay and transgender workers, and voted to repeal the healthcare law that provides coverage to the uninsured and those with pre-existing conditions.
House and Senate first.
That Depends.
Can I get an A-men?
Good. Time to give them all the Johnson!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
squeal piggies - squeal as the trough is taken away
i hope they all suffer
Do as I suggested for Congress 10 years ago.
Pay them at or near minimum wage for the privilege of serving, and only two years per term and bar every one of them from running for another office or moving into another government position. Abolish all government unions. They get none or bare minimum heath benefits like the private sector. Outside of national security type issues, no closed door meetings ever. They get retirement based on their two years of service. That's it. Back to the private sector for them.
We'll pay for their travel, no first class, cover some food expenses and give them 400 bucks per month for housing for the privilege of serving.
Every six months investigate their finances.
Everything outside of national security issues should be recorded and available for public, even their phone calls, computer emails while conducting their duties. No perks, no bull sh*t travel, no big expenses, no bribes, no favors, zip.
This is just a start of what needs to happen to these people in D.C.
Don’t do that, just do what Walker did. Give them a choice. End the union monopoly.
Hey guys, just wait until Scott Walker is your President.
The G-men are going to get it first.
Penny plan modified.
Every employee, official, agency, department, everything and everyone, gets a 1% cut every fiscal year for the next 10 years. Even the military. Everything and everyone.
If anyone doesn’t like it, leave and get a job elsewhere. For active duty, permit immediate sep. fm service.
Bttt.
I would add one item to the list. All government employees that have past due income taxes should be terminated and whatever tax is owed be taken from their accumulated vacation and retirement fund.
God bless him!
While reading the thread, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Here’s an idea.....the federal workers get to keep their pay and bennies but to do so, each department needs to cut their headcount by 33 %
Watch the long knives came out....
Even cutting the workforce by a third, I don’t think anybody wil be over burdened....
If they are....BFD....I now do the work of what three people did in 2008...
I like this guy. He should start by cutting out all the employees paid for by the taxpayer to represent the union on government time.
You are wrong! They missed the Koch brothers.
What?!
government workers, living like common peasants?
This is an OUTRAGE!
“plans to cut federal employees’ pay and pensions”
Excellent. Good luck!
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