Post 10
I have no idea about the specifics of your example but, from what I know about federal retirement, this sounds like BS, so it probably is.
The article states “truth be told, it would not save a great deal of money” so this would be just a symbolic action. The writer could do a little investigation to determine waste and abuse and propose actions to eliminate that.
Federal salaries, as well as colas, are set by wage surveys and are consistent with comparable positions in the area. There are dedicated federal workers, in essential positions, that earn every penny they are paid, there are others with ill defined duties and little accountability that have little true purpose. Anyone addressing this issue should know the difference.
Should have been directed to SeekAndFind, post 25.
I’ll go so far as to say there are plenty of hard working, federal workers in non-essential positions. By non-essential, I mean in jobs that are not in support of constitutionally enumerated federal powers. The problem isn’t the workers so much as the voters who keep asking the federal government to take on more and more.
I don’t blame anyone for taking a federal job. What do folks want good people to do? Turn down federal work so that only leftists work for government?!? That’s crazy!
Stop asking government to do things that people should be doing for themselves! Start reducing government back to its core tasks.
This will take time, folks. You do this all at once, and we WILL have a depression or worse. You ELIMINATE those programs, over time, that do not support the constitutionally enumerated powers. You return the employees in those programs, over time, to the private work force (and/or transfer the brightest into core jobs).
I know people are fired up to slash government. I’m all for that, too, but it took us 80 years to get here. You try returning millions of federal employees to civilian jobs all at once, and you are going to have an unbelievable mess. Or, you do some asinine across-the-board cut and the best, hardest working folks will bail, leaving the dregs to run the programs (which will still be there albeit not as well funded).