Posted on 08/15/2011 1:42:23 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - Only in Washington, D.C.—home of a federal government that has dramatically increased its spending as a share of the U.S. economy over the last three years—did a majority of the people say they believe the economy was getting better not worse in the first half of this year, according to a survey released today by Gallup.
In not one state did more than 41 percent of those surveyed tell Gallup they believed the economy was getting better.
From January through June, Gallup asked 87,634 American adults in all 50 states and the District of Columbia this question: “Right now, do you think the economic conditions in the country are getting better or getting worse?”
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WELL DUH!
Only gov’t workers are reaping rich rewards on the back of tax payers!
I’m worried it is worse than it is!
Congress and the Federal Bureaucrats never had it so good!
the 41 percent that think it’s getting better must have won 10 bucks in the lotto
“Only in Washington, D.C. [do] a majority of the people say they believe the economy was getting better”
And they would be right. About their local economy, anyway. The country is going downhill on greased skids, but DC will be just fine...until all at once it isn’t.
The 50% unemployed DC teens would disagree, if anyone bothered to poll them.
So like Rome...the capitol feeding on and bleeding out the rest of the nation. Power and money consolidates and the nation (empire) disintegrates.
I sort of wrote about this in Obama Bumper Sticker Epiphany but I have something to add.
Around here in Northern-NJ 20 miles west of Manhattan, one sees all sorts of commercial real-estate "Available." Some of it I've never seen "Available" before in my nearly 40 years here. Two months ago I spent several days in suburban Maryland to attend the US Open Golf Tournament in Bethesda. I stayed with a friend near Olney. We had about a half hour drive to the parking area and then another half hour plus ride on a bus to the course. I wasn't exactly looking, but I don't recall seeing a single "Available" sign in my five days down there.
ML/NJ
I sort of wrote about this in Obama Bumper Sticker Epiphany but I have something to add.
Around here in Northern-NJ 20 miles west of Manhattan, one sees all sorts of commercial real-estate "Available." Some of it I've never seen "Available" before in my nearly 40 years here. Two months ago I spent several days in suburban Maryland to attend the US Open Golf Tournament in Bethesda. I stayed with a friend near Olney. We had about a half hour drive to the parking area and then another half hour plus ride on a bus to the course. I wasn't exactly looking, but I don't recall seeing a single "Available" sign in my five days down there.
ML/NJ
It really is a different planet.
That is why we are in such a mess. D.C. is the home of elected stupid idiots.
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.
When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.
The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules.
"There's no way to justify this to the American people. It's ridiculous," says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a first-term lawmaker who is on the House's federal workforce subcommittee.
They are “available” all over Reston, Herndon, Loudoun County.
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