[Aurorales]

My word, you sound like a DU poster.

The fact that you just put our military heros on equal footing as teachers is astonishing.

The major problem with the cuts is the lack of fairness.

Where are the cuts for existing federal workers?
Where are the cuts for the welfare bums?
Where are the cuts for the fake disabled?
Where are the cuts for the government waste?

THEY ARE NOT THERE!

[USNBandit]

Federal employees have had cost of living increases frozen for several years, but that's not the point. The point is that we have so many more places we could easily cut waste, but this deal just maintains the status quo. The meager increase in employee contributions for federal service only applies to new hires.

Ryan is an idiot because he thinks this is the path back to normal (legal) budgeting. It is giving the Democrats cover for the next election. If anything becomes unpalatable for them later they will fall back on "baseline plus" and another endless stream of CR's.