Posted on 12/09/2016 9:14:39 AM PST by mdittmar
Pretty close to zero.
And most of these people are among the so-called ‘greatest generation’ who fought bravely in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. They paid their dues in any number of ways without complaining.
Shameful.
Eff you, Cox.
We are ALL worse off than when that purple lipped cretin came in to power...
Your group should be last of all...if ya don’t like it
QUIT!
Now if a Republican had been in office during that time imagine what the MSMLSD would have been yelling about.
The last time my company did raises,(7 years ago); they laid off half the work force just over a month later.
That's right,it's Washington DC.The one major city in this country that produces one thing...paperwork.
It's a nice gig if you can get it.
That’s just what I thought.
Another instance of Obama paying off the unions.
What if she, or he, decides to double their pay?
I believe what happened is he used a provision called "pay parity", back in the 1990's the Federal Employee Unions pushed for a provision to tie Federal Employee Pay increases to Military Pay, so if the soldiers got a raise, all Federal Employees automatically got the same equivalent raise. They got half of what the wanted, the provision that passed allowed the president to match military and Federal Employee raises but didn't require it. In the Defense Authorization Bill that just passed, Congress raised Military pay by 2.1%, so Obama activated the "pay parity" provision and was able to raise federal employee pay the same amount without having to go through congress.
After repealing Obamacare, Trump should appoint a committee to seriously look at privatizing about 70% of current government services. Take each agency and each job. . an in depth review. . May take a few years. .
You Just Know that privatizing said job or service would come in Way Under Budget to what it's costing now. . especially with Trump overseeing it. . He would totally be in his element when he saw the before and after cost comparisons, the improved efficiency, etc. . Beaming ear to ear. I hope he goes for it.
Because we invested our money in the government and they stole it. Its time for the government to pay back what it owes starting with the cry baby liberals they stole the Trust Fund to pay for there Vietnam incursion...Pay up azzhats....
My SS went down by about $120 per month for 2017.
Now that is because I was foolish enough to believe in the once-popular idea of a 3-legged stool to support my retirement. SS, pension and personal savings. Even the SS people wrote about that concept and promoted it heavily.
No, the SS itself didn't go down, it increased by a few dollars, but the Medicare that I am forced to take went up by enough so that the net check is $120 less than 2016.
While I was working, SS was touted a a sacred obligation of the government, workers pay into it while they are young and the government guarantees to support them when they are old. Well that turn out to be a big load of smelly Obama.
I remember those Democrat editorial cartoons showing Bush pushing grandma down the stairs when he proposed allowing workers to use just ten percent of their SS tax to invest in government approved securities to enhance their retirement. They accused him of wanting to strip them of their SS retirement funds.
The fact is, federal employee salaries under GWB increased a far greater percentage than anything Obama has done.
For GS employees, there are 13 GS levels, with 10 steps each.
In 2001 (Clinton set the salary for 2001, since he was in office in December of 2000. Likewise, Bush set salaries for 2002-2009), base salary for an entry-level GS-01 Step 1 was $14,244. For 2009, the last year for a Bush pay raise, the GS-01 Step 1 was $17,540. A difference of $3,296 and 23.14% increase from when Bush took office.
Using $17,540 as the base for Obama, a GS-01 Step 1 in 2016 makes $18,343, a difference of $803, or 4.6%. You can also see that Obama froze pay for federal employees at 2010 rates through 2013, and then raised them by 1% in 2014, when he allowed a raise to occur. There were also raises in 2015 and 2016, but nothing close to what Bush did.
If the 2017 rate goes up by 2.1%, then that same GS-01 step 1 will be making $18,728, a difference over 2009 of $1,188 and 6.77%.
Bush was far more responsible for increasing federal salaries than Obama was.
Again, posted for purely informational purposes. The information can all be found at the OPM.GOV website under Policy, then Pay and Leave.
0.3%, up from nothing the previous 2 (or more) years.”””\
I have been on Soc Sec since 11-2004.
Obama froze us for 3 years already—and according to new reports—we are getting a .3% raise this coming year. That amounts to $3 on a Thousand $$. For me, now getting $1129 a month, it means I will get $36 for entire coming year extra from Soc Sec.
Obama is bringing in thousands of ‘refugees’ & paying every penny of their existence here in the USA. We are getting stiffed.
Giving the Fed employees a raise of 2.1%is a complete insult to all of us on Soc Sec.
I hope Trump lays off at least 40% of Fed employees. Make sure the ones on ‘paid leave’ get swept out, also.
BYW-
We usually get a notice from the Feds in Mid-November about what our new monthly rate will be. NO ONE I have spoken to has received this notice. Now, many of us are wondering is we are getting anything at all.
Did this raise go thru Congress for approval? IF this is only an EO from Obama—can it be reversed?
Also-—IF anyone on Soc Sec dies during the month—even if the last day of the month—they do NOT get any Soc Sec for that month..which is paid he month following. Our Soc Sec checks are earnings from the PRIOR month—not the month we get the funds. So—IF I die on the 30th, there will be no check coming the next month. Keep in mind, I had expenses for the 30 days I was alive.
Fed employees get paid right up to their demise.
The last time my company did raises,(7 years ago); they laid off half the work force just over a month later.”””
I am a self employed full charge bookkeeper.
The last raise I gave myself & charged my clients was in Jan of 1989. I charge $20 an hour—with no minimums. That is almost 29 years ago.
Thatg’s $20 an hour for work done & billed to clients.
NO paid vacations
NO paid holidays
NO benefits paid like health/dental/eye care insurance
And—as a self employed person—I got to pay BOTH parts of Medicare & Soc Sec...15.3 %
SUCH A DEAL!!!
Yeah, but lucky for us the increase in health care took care of that and then some.
SS recipients are more likely than gummint “work”ers to vote Republican. We are also disproportionately white. We have gotten quite used to Comrade Imam Obongo denying us Cost of Living increases, year after year after impoverished year.
“SS recipients are more likely than gummint “work”ers to vote Republican. We are also disproportionately white.”
I don’t agree with that at all. There are plenty of ignorant white voters that only watch the MSM and believe that Republicans want to take away their SS benefits. They think that Obama is the one that is going to save them. That’s why they voted for Obama.
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