Now class, let's all remember what LBJ said along those lines............
The price of buying votes is getting higher and higher. It used to be a free beer or a cigar. How times have changed.
100% Dem win. Bad GOP squishes.
Just say NO.
I support the pay raise if there is a 5% cut in federal jobs
She is a manager, knows finance and databases and actually tries to save the feds money, but it took her over three grueling years to get a non-producer, lazy lay about, fired and even then, the feds let her retire instead of out right firing her.
The details would make your hair stand on end, but you've heard the story before.
Trump is doing the best he can, but I'm not sure that the swamp can ever be really drained.
Swamp creatures start out as fingerling swimmers and most are eaten by the bigger older, swamp creatures.
The ones that survive form gangs, like SWP-13, the Latin Snappers, the Black Inner City Swampers, etc. and fight off the other and fight with each other.
All the fighting makes only the strongest still able to survive the swamp water, which makes them even harder to kill.
Pander. Pander. Pander
Cut salaries, layoffs, terminations, outsourcing.
The more the merrier
As soon as the National Debt is paid off and the Federal Budget is balanced, give those poor overworked folks a raise.
I’d prefer an across the board 10% for ALL federal employees, except the military!
And, a huge RIF!
Slash and burn - too many bureaucrats! Get ridofem!
The US government. The only organization in the country that gives employees a raise for doing nothing or screwing up everything they touch.
I’d say agree to the pay raise with the provision that any federal employee still on the old CSRS system by the end of the fiscal year be automatically moved to the FERS system. The manpower savings will more than cover the costs of the pay increase and all those billets held up by civil servants retired in place for 10+ years will make a world of difference for younger feds blocked out of promotions and innovation by the entrenched older feds
We need to SLASH ALL pay by fifty percent. WTH do these PUBLIC SERVANTS think they are?
Meanwhile, my Soc.Sec. check will be less, just like it is every year, due to another rise in Medicare costs. Of course, if I was a retired gov’t worker....
Tie fed pay increases to funding for the wall at the southern border. No funding of the wall, then no pay increases at all. For each $10 billion of wall funding, allow 1 percent pay increase up to 3 percent max. Contingent on the wall actually being built with the new funding. To hell with the swamp dwellers.