I’m a Federal employee and there’s a good chance I will get furloughed. Losing the money would be tough. Still, if that’s the only way to reduce the deficit, so be it. I’m also a father and I don’t want to see this country turn into Greece. I’d rather they targeted the cuts at mostly worthless expenditures like the Department of Education and Housing and Urban Development, but an across-the-board cut is better than nothing.
One factor that hasn’t been mentioned in this discussion is demographic: the peak year of the baby boom was 1957 and the years surrounding that were high-birth years as well. Thus, you have a lot of Federal employees in that 55 to 57 year age range who would probably accept a buyout. Buy them out, don’t fill the positions, and you can save a lot of money right there.
Concur. The solution to this mess is simple; "Stop all unconstitutional spending." A top to bottom review of the Federal Code for Constitutional compliance, repealing all laws that do not pass, would also be in order.
Buy them out, don’t fill the positions, and you can save a lot of money right there.
Am sure this will also happen. Those furloughed should consider it the first step to their positions being eliminated. They should take it as a warning and plan accordingly.
I’m also a Federal Employee, specifically one of the 100,000+ engineers and scientists that directly support the warfighter on a daily basis. I agree there many useless departments within government that need eliminated. But after 3 years of pay freeze and now up to 22 days of furlough, EPA only will have to take 6 days, enough is enough. Cut all foreign aid, eliminate duplicate programs, cut waste and fraud that is rampant in social programs and one can easily come up with 200+ Million in cuts without impacting Federal Pay. But NOOO, our mental midget politicians would rather play class warfare instead of actually solving a problem. And as for being overpaid, keep in mind figures don’t lie but liars can figure, so be careful when making accusations based on information from unbiased think tanks.