Posted on 12/22/2005 8:41:19 PM PST by ncountylee
Bush Signs Executive Order to Raise Federal Workers' Pay
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday outlined pay raises that take effect in January for federal workers, members of Congress, judges even Vice President Dick Cheney.
Congress passed the pay raises earlier this year, but Bush was required to sign an executive order detailing the pay hikes before the end of the year.
The president's annual salary of $400,000 is not affected by the legislation.
The cost-of-living raise lifts salaries for members of the House and Senate by 1.9 percent from $162,100 this year to $165,200 in 2006.
The measure provides most civilian white-collar civil servants with at least a 2.1 percent overall average pay increase.
Uniformed military personnel will receive a 3.1 percent increase in basic pay next year.
The 1.9 percent pay hike also applies to the vice president who is president of the Senate congressional leaders and Supreme Court justices.
The pay for Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who is now John Roberts, will go from $208,100 to $212,100. Associate justices move from $199,200 to $203,000 and House and Senate majority and minority leaders' pay jumps from $180,100 to $183,500.
Without any contest, the Congress is GROSSLY overpaid, when you consider the job they are doing TO (not FOR) this country. The spending just never stops in Washington.
This means the Supreme Court Justices get about $2300 per case.
Yes, let's deny the Government their pay raise and see if they go on strike.
What have they done to justify a pay raise? "Inflation" or "rising cost of living" is not a reason. In any workplace but the fantasy world of a government job, one must justify an increase in pay with an increase in productivity or quality.
How would we know they are on strike? Would they start working?
What a bunch of crap!
Read this article (click here ) about the conspiracy against the taxpayers by our enemy within!
Thanks for the link.
That link is to an article about state employees' pay and pensions -- not federal government employees.
The bill Bush signed gave a salary increase to federal employees -- not state government workers.
Big difference!
As a federal employee, I assure you your tax money is being well spent on my salary and benefits!
Better go back and read the article again.
I agree the article's emphasis is on state and local government, but the theme applies to the Federal employees as well. The last papragrah states:
"The extraordinary resources that public-sector interests can now bring to such a fight illustrate how even in places where citizens have direct access to the ballot box, reform won’t be easy. Public-sector forces have spent the last 40 years gathering power and organizing effectively. The next year or so will show whether tax revolts at the local level are still possible in America and whether taxpayers can be the masters of the public servants they support."
That passage you quoted is geared toward the local level, not the federal level -- just like the whole article.
Seriously, the steep gains in salary, pension, and other benefits are almost all at the state level. This is pretty well known.
I think they should give a raise of 1% to government workers and a 4% raise to government workers who are non-union.
If accurate, no endeavor as large as the federal government can be that good so we are wasting money hand over fist.
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