11/30/2002 4:14:15 PM PST
· 74 of 143 ctn
to Big Bear_L.C.A.R.
If two homsexuals want to sign some kind of "union" contract with one another, that's their business, IMO.
Unfortunately, for the radical gay lobby, there's more to it. What they really want is to attack the primacy of the institution of marriage between men and women, further destablizing our society and hastening its cultural destruction.
11/29/2002 5:48:22 PM PST
· 28 of 311 ctn
to RobFromGa
Good one!
Only the ultra-liberal union sympathizers at the AP would ask why federal bureaucrats are "only" getting a 3.1% raise when average Americans are being thrown out of their jobs all over the country.
11/29/2002 5:39:05 PM PST
· 22 of 311 ctn
to Sub-Driver
Well Jennifer Loven must have pleased her liberal masters today. She's gone and zinged us conservatives but good.
I mean, it's not enough to say this is a salary freeze, which it is. Instead this whacky liberal journalist has to invent the notion of "slashing" a raise.
On top of a fat 3.1% raise in a depressed economy, federal employees would have gotten a bonus based on the increase in the corresponding private-sector wage. And the fact that they won't get this extra increase is cause for hysteria among the big-government liberal crowd.
Hoping to teach our mean ol' president a lesson, Jennifer blasts Bush throughout the article. It's "[a] blow to federal workers" -- Oh no, don't touch the fat federal bureaucracy!
Since the White House "quietly released the letter...[during] a long holiday weekend", Jennifer must have stumbled on Watergate 2002. Perhaps Jennifer wants the White House to kick back, relax and stop working during Thanksgiving -- ample fodder for a scathing AP expose on the lethargy of turkey-stuffed White House staffers, no doubt.
And the best part is buried deep in the article, where Jennifer embarrassingly includes the fact that these "slashed" increases almost never go into effect anyway.
In light of these facts, let me suggest a more accurate headline:
Federal Employees Won't Get Raise Which They Normally Wouldn't Get Anyway