Posted on 11/02/2016 8:46:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Big Government: A new survey finds that more than a third of federal workers are threatening to quit their jobs should Donald Trump prevail in the presidential election. If only that were true.
A survey of federal employees by the Government Business Council and GovExec.com found that 14% said they would "definitely" consider quitting their jobs if Trump wins the election on Nov. 8, another 13% said they might consider it. Just 65% said they'd stay on at their jobs no matter who wins.
Whatever Trump's many flaws, that's an awfully tempting reason to cast a ballot for him. Except for the fact that these workers will almost certainly decide to keep their jobs no matter who wins, if for no other reason than most of them would probably find jobs in the private sector utterly intolerable.
As Dr. Stantz put it in "Ghostbusters," "You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results!"
The simple truth is that federal workers are paid far more than their private sector counterparts when you combine wages and benefits. A 2012 Congressional Budget Office report found that federal workers with a high school diploma or less made 36% more than similarly educated workers in the private sector. For people with a bachelor's degree, the gap was 15%.
A more recent analysis by the Cato Institute found that federal employees make 76% more than private sector workers. Using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Cato report found that the average federal employee pulls down $123,160 a year in pay and benefits, compared with $69,901 in the private sector. It also found that this gap had increased since the 1990s, when it was 39%.
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It's also nearly impossible to fire a federal worker, no matter what the reason, as various government audits have shown.
BEST ELECTION EVER!
That would be a good start.
No one would even notice.
I’ll believe that when i see it.
They’ll all quit and move to Canada, right?
Hmmmm a federal worker threatening to quit over Trump getting elected is like the sheriff from Blazing Saddles holding a gun to his own head ....
If they were smart, they would wait until he fired them so at least they could continue to live off the government dole/unemployment insurance for a while, didn't Obama extend it to 3 years or something ridiculous?
These folks are like all the "celebrities" that keep promising to leave the country....all talk and no action.
Come on Mr Trump, you can do better than that. Isn’t there anything you can say or do to get that number over 50%???
Someone should unionize them. Maybe the air traffic controllers would be a good inspiration.
Not going to happen. Not going to jump out of the feather bed into the cold harsh reality of the private sector.
Hollywood morons fleeing to Canada, government boondogglers resigning en masse. This is getting better by the day!
Talk is cheap. How many people left the country after the GWB elections who said they would?
That gubbmint easy money is hard to turn down.
Now, Trump might just close a few departments and force the issue, but that’s another matter.
The 35% are the smart ones.
The others will be fired or brought up on charges.
At least 35% of them are involved in some kind of fraud or corruption, so they are going to have to
I suggest Trump (in his inaugural address) announce a 1-year amnesty program for turning yourself in for government fraud, and after that a mandatory 10 year jail sentence and 10% reward for whistle-blowers.
It’s a BS article. The word “quit” implies that they were working in the first place, which they aren’t.
I’d be amazed if even 1% of those leeches quit.
Most will likely continue to recieve Federal monies thru retirement, benifits, etc.
But if they leave maybe it will offer an opportunity to downsize some of the waste.
Idle threats. They “might” quit. Yeah, right.
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