Reduce the number of federal employees in all departments by not less than one-third. This year. Next year, another one-third. Reduce the salaries of all government employees, including the President and Congress, to the average for the American workers. We should want it fair and balanced since that is the cry the Democrats use repeatedly. Let's force the central socialist government to follow their lead . . .
We now have a government that's easy to hate!
As a federal employee ... I know that is BS. I am an engineer who worked for a defense contractor for 20 years before moving to the government.
I make less now, but nowhere near 35% less ...
The federal retirement from 1984 forward sucks! I don’t know why people think it is so great. Federal Government is working tomorrow ALL Day. Most private businesses are off. Most private businesses are giving great Christmas Parties and bonus’. Not the federal government.
As a government employee, I can tell you that people don’t work here for the money. They work for the benefits. The biggest benefit is the reluctance of the government to get rid of you after 50.
Also people want more government workers. They want more people working in the DMV and Social Security and Medicare and etc etc. They just want them to work for free. Or get their dead azz off STD/LTD and go back to work.
This salary stuff is the wrong, and to be blunt stupid, discussion to be having
What we should be talking about are things like getting the Gvt to move away from the GS scale (with it’s automatic step increases) and into a pay for performance structure. And eliminating waste from unneeded, redundant positions. Then loosening up the laws that prevent poorly performing Federal workers from being easily fired. And finally reforming the hiring process so that the best qualified candidates get the jobs.
Arguing about salary is nothing more than a distraction. Especially since the salary numbers are dwarfed by the inefficiencies caused by not addressing the points above.
Hell yes! keep cutting their salaries until they are like the rest of us.
My Father once told me that the only job you can complain about is the one you took because you had a gun to your head.
What was the line from the Godfather? Either your signature or your brains will be on that contract.
If anyone doesn’t like their Job, they can quit and find another one without retribution.
This thread is a mirror of the nation we live in: nearly as many posts by government workers as by those who pay for the government.
Many of us remember that when we were young we might see, during the course of a day, a postal worker, a cop, some teachers and a county road grader or snowplow driver...that was government for us and we were grateful for it.
Those workers saw themselves as public servants and we were glad that they (and of course ALL military personnel) were on the job.
Nowadays I can’t turn around but to encounter an imperious tax assessor, tax collector, building inspector, fee collector, councilman, commissioner, regulator, permitter, faculty member, government union boss, designated government protected identity group member (or his or her lawyer), etc. etc. etc.
Those who are paying the tax bill are now also somehow working FOR those who collect and spend the proceeds. And they not only tell me what to do and how much it will cost me for the privilege, many of them also seem to despise me for trying to do anything at all.
Furthermore, as can be seen in this thread, they also wish to make clear just how damn tough they have it, apparently because of ingrates like me.
“Morning Bell: Should We Pay Government Employees More?”
Better question: Should taxpayers, who had their children’s treasure stolen at the point of a gun so fat-ass bureaucrats could holiday at a French chateau, be taking their treasure back?