By Douglas V. Gibbs
President Barack Obama has announced in order to fight the deficit, he is proposing a two-year freeze of the salaries of some 2 million federal workers.
That's like a person racking up thousands of dollars of credit card debt, then offering sixty cents to help get it under control.
Besides, the freeze is not a freeze. It's political posturing, and a symbolic move to make it look like the federal workers, who make double what their civilian counterparts make in many cases, and of late are not real popular with voters, are chipping in to clean up the mess.
Typical politicians. They spend like drunken sailors, then promise to fix the mess with fixes that won't work, and acting as though they have no idea why the mess exists in the first place. . . my apologies to drunken sailors - I didn't mean to insult you comparing you to Democrats.
"Small businesses and families are tightening their belts," Obama said in brief remarks at the White House. "The government should, too."
Okay, clown in chief, cut your own pay, kill the benefits packages for your cohorts, and reduce spending. . . oh, wait, they'd never do that. They'd rather take it from the tax payers, and now the government workers.
The plan was designed to save more than $5 billion over the first two years. And how many trillions of dollars are we in debt?
I have an idea. How about cutting unnecessary positions, and then reduce spending 10% across the board, and then after that eliminate things like sending federal money to teach Africans to clean their penises, buying new stoves for everyone in Nigeria, and however many billions you send to the enemy (Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Authority) in the guise of aid when you know, and I know, our aid to them is spent on weapons to kill Americans and Israelis, while their people continue to starve!
Obama's move was an attempt to get in front of Republican plans to slash federal pay and the workforce next year, when they will flex more legislative muscle than now. It came a day ahead of Obama's meeting at the White House with both Republicans and Democratic leaders — his first with Republicans since the midterm elections — and two days before the deadline for recommendations by his deficit-reduction commission.
The freeze, if passed by Congress, would take effect on January 1. Without congressional action, federal employees would automatically get a 0.9 percent increase under the formula set by a 1990 law. They received a 1.9 percent pay increase this year.
Understand what they are talking about freezing is the cost of living raises, and promotions to the next level. But this does not include "steps." Within each GS Rating there are steps, and the steps remain available, and will be just as lucrative, so the freeze does nothing anyway. It's a lie by the Democrats to make it look like they are doing something about the deficit that they expanded.
Also note that since Obama has taken office, more government employees make over $100,000 per year than ever before in history.
Nonetheless, Obama has pissed off one of his big allies, the unions. Symbolic, or not, they are angry he has turned on them, and are working toe derail the proposal in Congress.
Wow, this dude pisses everyone off!
That's right, I called the President of the United States "dude." I respect the office, but I have no respect for the Idiot in Chief.
By the way, just to show how much our government has been expanding, the federal government is the nation's largest employer, with about 2 million employees.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Obama calls for 2-year freeze on federal pay - Associate Press/Yahoo News
Your Tax Dollars At Work, Washing Genitals - Political Pistachio
$50 Million of your tax dollars to. . . Cleaner Stoves Around The World - Political Pistachio
Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons - Jihad Watch
North Korean plane intercepted last year was carrying weapons to Hizballah and Hamas
- Jihad Watch
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