Posted on 03/01/2013 9:13:56 AM PST by jimbo123
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For most of their lives, federal workers in Mantua say, having “United States Treasury” atop their paycheck meant security, pride and a sense of mission. Things change: Now it means having to defend yourself against arguments, from strangers and even from your own relatives, that you’re an overpaid and underworked leech.
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Why would they say weekly?
time to move lancey ~ life is too short to live in a toxic waste dump ~ seriously.
Well golly! Looks like these federal workers are now facing what pretty much every other American has been facing since, oh, about 1979. You can't go to work in a make-work job that overpays you day in and day out with the security of knowing the gravy train will continue anymore.
The truly sad part is that none of these workers are going to get laid off. $85 billion out of $3.7 trillion is a drop in the bucket and unless Obama intentionally inflicts pain, no one will notice it.
It may surprise you to know there are many government employees who are conservative and vote that way.
Not all are lockstep, glassy-eyed liberals.
It may surprise you to know there are many government employees who are conservative and vote that way.
Not all are lockstep, glassy-eyed liberals.
‘professor’ ~ meaning ‘one who has a doctorate’ ~ and yours is in what field? (i do hope you aren’t among those who disparage education like those black people in the ghetto who call it ‘acting white’)
In the last few years the private sector has experienced a lot of layoffs, this results in the remaining salary workers to take on more responsibilities for no additional pay, or with pay cuts. Now the public employees, that are paid by the private sector, is complaining that they will get a pay cut but will have their work hours lowered.
Every day seems like bizarro world.
Why do you folks imagine federal employment is without ordinary travail?
Now, tell us, would you rather have a meaningless patent office or one that works?
Perhaps because during the past four years, multiple *millions* of private-sector jobs have been lost, while at the same time Fedzilla has *added* 130,000 to its employment rolls.
If you're trying to convince us that Fed employees face anywhere near the kind of job insecurity that we do out here, you'll have to do a lot better than that.
130,000 jobs out of several million ain’t no thang ~ at the same time federal employment has been pretty close to the same number since 1964 ~ take a look sometime.
hmm ~ trying to recall a year since 1973 when I didn’t face a RIF or reorganization of some kind ~ we were pretty hot on productivity ~ and kept employment numbers within sight of half a million while production increased 700% ~
My husband is a DOD employee, after spending 30 years in the Marine Corps. We are conservatives and 90 percent of his coworkers are conservative, so eff you too with your stupid remarks.
nobody you now will feel anything anyway. in my neighborhood we’ll probably have half a dozen bankruptcies and as the HOA president I’ll have some serious paper work to do when that happens.
Cutting $85 billion from a $3.7 trillion budget does not have to result in what you describe unless Obama wants it to. I am not trying to belittle your concerns. But they will only happen if Obama wants them to happen to make a political point. We can cut 2% or 3% from the federal budget without mass layoffs.
You lump DOD in with all Federales. DOD is the backbone of defense. Only DOD is getting cut. It’s not across the board.
This is the dumbest thing they could do. The military is an essential service. You can’t just lay off and rehire like in the civilian world.
Pay and bennies can be better or worse than in the private sector. It all depends on the job and location. You have to pay for health, insurance, retirement, etc, just like any other job. They use the same companies as any one else, Blue Cross, Humana, Delta etc. My brother has better health insurance plans on his job.
The only benefit I see is job security. If you have a technical position you can always make more on the outside.
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