Federal pay and benefits spared -- for now

GovernmentExecutive.com ^ | July 26, 2011 | Kellie Lunney

[Jim from C-Town]

Exactly, They will spend and spend until forced to stop.

[Jim from C-Town]

There are never any cuts, just reductions in proposed increases.

Cuts would mean a percentage LESS tomorrow than what was spent today.

[cherry]

personal is the BIGGEST monkey in the room and they ignore it?....

[GeronL]

The federal workforce needs to be slashed.

[La Enchiladita]

You mean, like the proposed Chain Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers which changes the SS COLA formula??

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/federal-122050-payments-yardstick.html#ixzz1TGIyb9fu

[cherry]

sarcasm at its best....

[cherry]

I want a strong military but we need to discourage lifers and keep a steady drum beat of younger people in....that way, the pension and medical benefits won’t be so tremendous, as they are now...

[Atlas Sneezed]

Step 1: 10% cut, including pension, or you may feel free to quit.

Step 2: The taxpayers default on government employees, and your get NOTHING.

[Atlas Sneezed]

It is always Seniors, Vets, and Federal Workers who are targeted. Can you imagine a Senior Citizen who retired from the military and federal government. That poor guy will be screwed three times for giving of himself his entire life. Pitiful.

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Sucking at three tits makes one an easy target.

[muawiyah]

You could fire ALL the federal employees and the absence of their former salaries in the national tally would not make a mark ~ they round off things before they get to such a small number.

[muawiyah]

Yeah, and it keeps you good and healthy and gives you a steady hand on the firing line.

Do you imagine actions don't have consequences?

[RockinRight]

Say it with me — ENTITLEMENTS.

[dennisw]

Want to save billions and juice the economy? Nuke the EPA, EEOC, OSHA, Dept. Education. Fire every last parasite. Numerous other Federal agencies can be slashed to skeleton crews or fire all personnel

[xzins]

Do you include the military as federal workers?

[capecodder]

All czars.

[RockinRight]

While reduction in force ultimately needs to happen, I fail to see how you can “juice” the economy by increasing the number of people without disposable income.

[muawiyah]

Did you realize that the annual grants made by Department of Education are equal to about 1/3 of the total annual payroll for all the federal employees of all kinds including the military and the postal service.

That's just the annual grants from ONE DEPARTMENT.

Interior has some problems along that line, but the Grand Daddy of them all is USDA ~

Just cut out grants and you have more savings than you could ever dream off, and that wouldn't touch any entitlements!

[muawiyah]

BTW, "entitlements" are things people thought they were paying for or are paying for now. Social Security, Medicare, retirement ~

In fact, if it weren't for Social Security collections the federal government would have gone flat a$$ broke busted on it's back BANKRUPT 30 years ago.

[Magnum44]

So only our defense gets cut? No words...

[muawiyah]

My federal retirement "contributions" gave you people an interest free loan for many, many years.

If you want to cut me off just give me my money back PLUS interest ~

Bunch of freeloaders ~ this country would have been on the sidewalk several months back but Geithner TOOK all the federal employee deposits he could to shore up continued government spending.