ONLY!
Federal employees received pay cuts during the period the politicians thought the way to solve the Great Depression was to balance the budget.
I could not help but notice that Obama just bought into that idea.
CLUE: It didn't work last time, and it won't work this time either.
The primary problem is overproduction, deflation, recent acceleration in the rate of technological change, and theft.
There is no will to go after the thieves ~ otherwise there are a number of members of Congress whose carcases would be hanging from Cherry Trees around the Tidal Basin.
“I have an inkpen around here Franklin Roosevelt used to sign the first, last and only federal employee pay raise he ever approved.”
You own it?