[SoJoCo]

Federal workers would suffer a similar, if less severe fate: Their salaries would be halved until the budget is balanced.

So Perry is going to tell some poor E-5 on his umpteenth tour in Afghanistan that the wife and kids back home will have to get by on half his former salary?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“...And we will say to every bureaucrat except our military and law enforcement: no salary increases until the federal budget is balanced. And because a president must lead by example, we should cut his salary in half until the budget is balanced.”...

http://www.rickperry.org/news/text-of-gov-perry-uproot-and-overhaul-washington-speech/