Posted on 11/11/2010 4:54:41 AM PST by markomalley
Federal employees would play a major role in reducing the nation's debt and deficit under a set of draft proposals released Wednesday by the co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission.
Former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) called on Americans to make sacrifices to "make America strong for the long haul."
Federal workers would face a freeze on "federal salaries, bonuses, and other compensation at non-Defense agencies for three years," saving $15.1 billion. Pentagon civilians would take the same hit, for a $5.3 billion savings.
The federal workforce would be cut by 10 percent, about 200,000 people, by hiring only two workers for every three who leave federal service. That would save $13.2 billion.
The response from the National Treasury Employees Union was swift.
"If enacted, the proposals in the draft report offered by the co-chairs of the White House deficit reduction commission would have an unfair and disproportionate impact on the federal employee and retiree community," said NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley.
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Raisning taxes is only a license to keep on spending!!!
We need to get rid of a whole lot of federal workers, not just freeze their pay.
Federal workers “sacrifice”????????? What “sacrifice”? They get paid a fortune. Their pay has been going up by leaps and bounds while average Americans have been getting pay cuts. The headline should be “Country Shouldn’t Borrow to Pay Federal Workers Premiums Over Private Sector and Give Them Huge Salary Increases in a Bad Recession.”
“If enacted, the proposals in the draft report offered by the co-chairs of the White House deficit reduction commission would have an unfair and disproportionate impact on the federal employee and retiree community,” said NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley.
Unions - what a bunch of losers. “Me, me, me!”
A lot of the Federal workforce is getting on in years. So if 2 are hired for every 3 that retire, then you could see a reduction in the workforce of probably around 10-20%.
Which I really wouldn’t have expected to come from a government panel, made up of governmental workers.
/johnny
Yes but not freeze, CUT.We can put through a 15% across the board forall non-military (excepting officers of Colonel and above) and not suffer any loss of "efficiency".
The Debt Panel’s reccomendations are a mixed bag.
Bullshit....to hell with a “freeze”; we need a rollback to reasonable compensation and benefits, removal of ALL government employee unions, and a scrutiny of ALL Federal Employee and State Employee compensation/retirement funds’ shenanigans.
Remember, your principal argument here is one of national government/private sector "equity", so exceptions have to have a really good reason.
I would be curious why you think defense analysts and weapons system designers should take a financial hit but not the folks in the mess hall.
Cut federal pay across the board and close the departments of Education and Energy. Neither one produces anything.
Completely stop foreign aid, dues to the UN and contributions to the World Bank.
Cut the budget of every agency in federal government by ten percent. Do it again.
Do away with all retirement pay to federal legislators and the High Court.
That’s a start...
>>Federal workers would face a freeze on “federal salaries, bonuses, and other compensation at non-Defense agencies for three years,” saving $15.1 billion. Pentagon civilians would take the same hit, for a $5.3 billion savings.<<
Group punishment for a year to save $20B while our dear leader spends $2B on a ten day trip??
Watch these ‘gubmimt’ workers scream like stuck pigs.
**Group punishment**????????????????
When a private company goes bankrupt - the employees are laid off permanently!!!
The Federal Government is BANKRUPT!!!!!! It produces nothing but rules and regulations.
STOP THE MADNESS - lay off all Federal workers for six months without pay. (bankruptcy lite)
(Employment in thousands)
Total Federal Employees (2008) 1,909
Jobs to be eliminated: 250 + 725 + 163 = 1,138
The following Departments and Agencies should be wholly eliminated, saving 230K jobs:
The following Departments and Agencies should be radically reduced an average of 75%, saving 725K jobs:
Reduce the Defense Department by 25% saving 163K jobs.
By 'saving' here I meant saving the Taxpayer the expense of the job.
The families of the fighting troops are on food stamps at Ft. Hood. I think they are sacrificing enough. For the fat cats in the Pentagon offices, we ought to board up every other office and we wouldn’t notice any difference.
The federal (so-called) “workforce” has grown by what? 200% in 20 years? And they want to trim it 10%, most of which would come right back through the revolving door as consultants?
BS! Eliminate BOTH DOEs immediately. Chop 50% of EVERY remaining department immediately. That would get us back to a federal gov’t size in place maybe 20 years ago.
It’s time to quit nibbling at the edges and cut a giant swath through the beast destroying the United States.
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