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Boehner: If some federal workers lose jobs because of GOP cuts, 'so be it'
CNN ^ | 2/15/2011 | Xuan Thai & Deirdre Walsh

Posted on 02/15/2011 12:11:43 PM PST by Qbert

Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday if some federal workers lose jobs because of Republican-proposed spending cuts, "so be it." But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was quick to say "not so be it."

"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it," Boehner said during a news conference with reporters at the Republican National Committee. "We're broke! It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money."

Boehner, who was joined by other House Republican leaders, criticized the President's budget proposal for not cutting enough and said Republicans would address entitlement reform when they release their budget blueprint this spring.

"Republicans will not punt," said Boehner. "Everything's on the table. We will put forward a budget that deals with the big challenges that face our country…I have no doubts that all of these issues [Social Security and Medicare] will be on the table."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seized on Boehner's comments in a speech on the floor, saying Republicans' proposed cuts would leave many in the cold.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boehner; broke; budget; cuts; debt; deficit; employees; federal; government; governmentworkers; lard; pelosi; pork; size; waste
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To: forgotten man
I wonder what percentage of Federal employees vote democrat?

119 percent.

41 posted on 02/15/2011 12:36:55 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: Qbert

Hey Federal workers.”hang in there!”


42 posted on 02/15/2011 12:39:21 PM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Wrong. I know that the civil servants working at the bases near me vote mostly republican.


43 posted on 02/15/2011 12:39:30 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Qbert

If SOME???!!!???.........how about half???


44 posted on 02/15/2011 12:39:41 PM PST by joe fonebone (The House has oversight of the Judiciary...why are the rogue judges not being impeached?)
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To: MadIsh32
Personally, if you really want to save money, I say the best people to cut are those who are paid for not working, i.e., welfare recipients. At least (honest) contractors show up for work, and most of them end up doing something useful.

Not all contractor overhead rates are that high. When I was in private consulting my indirect cost rate was 45% of direct costs. Sure, I included fringe benefits because those are a cost of doing business when you hire people, but the multiplier I used was 21% TDC. I generally charged 8.9% G&A.

OTOH, the government-employed contract monitor I had to work with on one program I swear only knew how to ask two questions: How long is it going to take?, and How much is it going to cost? We called it the HoLoHoMu syndrome. Technically, we was as useless as tits on a boar hog.

45 posted on 02/15/2011 12:42:54 PM PST by chimera
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To: chimera

21 percent of TDC is a miracle now a days.

Since a good part of my job is doing price to win analysis, I have a fairly good idea of the indirects of the big contractors around the beltway. You are looking at multipliers now approaching 2.9 to as high as 3.5 in some cases!! The worst are actually on the civil side, EPA, DOE, HHS contractors. They are consistantly in the 3.0 plus range


46 posted on 02/15/2011 12:46:00 PM PST by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: SeeSac; Colonel_Flagg

“Wrong. I know that the civil servants working at the bases near me vote mostly republican.”

Well, I guess that lone, personal example settles it... (/sarc)


47 posted on 02/15/2011 12:47:56 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Qbert

Good!!!


48 posted on 02/15/2011 12:48:09 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

“119 percent.”

Don’t count DoD employees in on that 119%. Most DoD employees are conservative.


49 posted on 02/15/2011 12:48:35 PM PST by Londo Molari
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To: Qbert

Well, well, well. Welcome to the party Mr. Boehner. The Governor or NJ has been taking on the public workers and their unions and it is resonating with the voters. About time you folks in DC stopped thinking every good idea must come from within the Beltway and instead start looking to where the real leadership of the Republican Party is residing (at the State level).


50 posted on 02/15/2011 12:50:01 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Qbert

Anyone else remember Ronald Reagan’s RIFs (Reductions in Force) for Federal employees in the early 80’s?


51 posted on 02/15/2011 12:50:14 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Qbert
Well, I guess that lone, personal example settles it... (/sarc)

It is not a 'lone personal example'. There are a lot of good conservative republicans working at our military bases as civil servants. And this is true throughout the U.S.

52 posted on 02/15/2011 12:50:43 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: forgotten man

“I wonder what percentage of Federal employees vote democrat?”

Don’t know the totals, but I’m sure it largely goes with the territory.


53 posted on 02/15/2011 12:50:59 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: MadIsh32
Well, in all fairness, it's been awhile since I did that work, and we had a bit of an edge on the health care cost side.

I still say "fire" the welfare leeches before anyone else. People who do no work and still get paid should be at the head of the line when it comes to being "fired" from the public dole.

54 posted on 02/15/2011 12:51:48 PM PST by chimera
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To: 4yearlurker

“The system is working” - Jugnut Nepalitano


55 posted on 02/15/2011 12:52:44 PM PST by blackdog
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To: SeeSac

We’re talking about the entire Federal government- not simply the military.


56 posted on 02/15/2011 12:53:12 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>We need to cut hundreds of billions from the budget.

1) 1.5 trillion was added by Obama
2) Bush was 500 billion over

Therefore) 2 trillion in reductions gets us to the point of “deficit not growing”.

THEN, the “cuts” into the 14 trillion debt begin.


57 posted on 02/15/2011 12:54:54 PM PST by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
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To: chimera

That I certainly feel we can all agree on.

Reducing the size of this government would take me a mere matter of minutes, in particular with the leeches in DC that add no productive value to the taxpayer


58 posted on 02/15/2011 12:55:13 PM PST by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: RockinRight

Judging from November... When you unemploy Americans they get Teaparty religion and elect more grownups to jumpstart the economy.


59 posted on 02/15/2011 12:55:29 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Qbert

The Dems are so predictable.

We are dead busted broke. The spending has to stopped. Healthcare must have a stake driven through its chest.

No more.

Good for Mr. Boehner.


60 posted on 02/15/2011 12:56:24 PM PST by RexBeach
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