[Cincinatus' Wife]

The entitlement mentality is stunning.

I particularly liked the outrage about not being able to hire extra help to make up the time after the "shut down."

[Olog-hai]

Funny how they’re using religious terms with respect to said entitlements.

[rlmorel]

"...2013 has not been a pleasant year if you work for the federal government. You’ve been subject to pay freezes, furloughs and shutdowns. One of you got yelled at by a Tea Party Republican at the World War II memorial. And if Congress passes the budget deal announced Tuesday night by Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray – a big if – you will get a final Christmas present: You’ll have to pay more into your pension, an effective wage cut that just adds to the $114 billion, with a “B,” federal employees have already given back to the government in the name of deficit reduction..."

BOO EFFING HOO.

Remind me again how many federal employees have lost their jobs, and how the number of federal employees has gone down.

I know there are good and honorable people in that sector, but reading this whiny drivel just pisses me off.

[Pollster1]

2013 has not been a pleasant year if you work for the federal government . . . One of you got yelled at by a Tea Party Republican at the World War II memorial.

Interesting way of reporting on the feds closing an outdoor memorial that is normally not staffed.

[tanknetter]

federal employees have sacrificed $114 billion in pay cuts over the past three years, an average of over $50,000 per employee

Riiiiighht.

That's what? $17,000 per year? Clearly the disproportionate impact is at the higher levels of the GS scale. It just goes to show how top-heavy the government is.

[arasina]

One of you got yelled at by a Tea Party Republican at the World War II memorial.

Waaaah!

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Salvavida]

I've some street cred on this. I was a fed employee, now a contractor:

Congress needs to make it easier to fire federal employees. Plain and simple. They do not need to give back any money or be furloughed. The INSPECTOR GENERALS need to be overhauled and brought into accountability with the GAO. They are the worst. Good intentions mean nothing. When you screw up and cost the taxpayers money because of negligence or incompetence: you are fired.

[SES1066]

The threat to a dignified end of life is now coming to government workers, who explicitly forgo wages in exchange for the promise of a modest retirement benefit.

This statement is the myth that will not die, those poor deserving bureaucrats who, like Bob Cratchit, slave away in dank, cold cubicles for the good of the country! The research is overwhelming, between pay and benefits, government workers are far better compensated than their private sector counterparts. However, you will not EVER hear this from the Union shills, BIG SURPRISE!

[Flick Lives]

You citizens of the Districts have no idea how we in the Capital have suffered.

[Peet]

Let me see if I have this straight: “...would have raised the employee contribution in three stages, from 0.8 percent of salary to 2 percent.”

This “news” story is whining about federal employees — employees paid out of taxpayers’ pockets — having to contribute 2 PERCENT to their retirement?!?!?!?!

I was paying five percent in 1972, fer cryin’ out loud.

ESAD, whiners...

[txrefugee]

Time to go find a real job, if you don’t like your federal feather bed. But don’t be surprised when you find there are none paying what you are getting now and that virtually all of them will require you to pay more for your fat retirement plan, the best in the nation.

Good luck on trying to find sympathy from the millions who have lost their jobs and can’t find another, or those who have been forced into part time jobs with less than 30 hours because of ObamaCare. Everyone knows the five wealthiest counties in America are clustered around Washington D.C. for a reason.

[Sicon]

Hmmm, let me see... As a private sector employee, I get NO pension, NO free health benefits, AND I have not gotten a raise in 7 years. I have a good job working for a very well-known company, and am thankful that I HAVE a job in the crap Obama economy.

And the WaPo thinks I feel bad for federal employees? Really? Screw all of the bloody useless leeches and parasites that most of them are.

[blackdog]

So my 401K contributions to my retirement account should be considered “pay cuts”? Boy have I been getting ripped off!

[Undecided 2012]

The Federal Workers Alliance notes that the average annual pension benefit for federal employees is just $12,800 per year

I call that, absolute BS

[Buckeye McFrog]

Major disconnect between the headline and the article.

I thought this was another story about Theresa Ghilarducci and that long rumored plan for the Feds to help themselves to our 401K.

Instead it’s about a bunch of government union workers whining about a tiny cut to their pensions.

[Texas Fossil]

Pay cuts and adjustments to pension funding is not the solution.

The solution is to DownSize DC! Close entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments. Move any worthwhile functions back to the States. Get the Fed Monster out of our lives except for what is constitutionally authorized and makes sense.

This is the only path out of this mess.

[HamiltonJay]

Unless I am wrong, the federal PENSION requirement is something like .8% currently, its a joke, and they are griping that it might go to 2%??? Are you serious.

Get out in the real world and good luck A) finding a job that has a true pension even offered, and B) finding any sort of retirement plan that will remotely provide you an income with a 2% contribution, let alone a .8%.

Its time to CUT the federal payroll by a 1/2 and be done with this, reality is could cut it by 3/4 if you excluded the military and still have a functioning nation.

[Wuli]

oh boo hoo. boo hoo; are we crying yet??? NEVER

[citizen]

A recurring complaint from government and/or union workers is them whining about having to provide more for their own retirement and health care costs.

government workers = voracious parasite
working public = host to be consumed

[sickoflibs]

Public pensions?

What’s a pension?