silverleaf: “obama and the radical liberals are the enemy, folks, not our fellow CITIZENS who work in the federal civil service”
Thank you, silverleaf. There are people who are jealous or angry or both at ALL federal employees. There were 2,748,978 civilian federal employees in the United States as of January 2009. The angry/jealous ones lump nearly 3 million people in very diverse jobs into one group and declare they ALL make too much. Note that the studies report average pay and benefits.
Some federal jobs are underpaid. Many are overpaid. Many jobs, like aircraft refurbishment for example, require highly specialized knowledge. You can’t just hire someone out of Mc Donalds to do some of these jobs. You also have federal employees serving all over the world in areas that are dangerous, very expensive, or both.
It’s so easy (and brainless) to cry for across the board cuts. Sure, who cares if talented employees leave key jobs (yeah, there are key jobs in federal service) to go to the private sector. Rather than force our politicians to prioritize and eliminate unconstitutional federal programs, it’s so much easier to blame federal employees who are simply trying to feed their families and, for the most part, serve their country.
So the alternative is to do what - leave everything as it is? Do a case by case investigation to see who's worth the money & who isn't, what jobs are worth keeping and which aren't?
What is the alternative? This brainless angry overtaxed serf can't think of one.