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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Cutting Federal Pay Could Hurt Governmentl Programs
Maybe federal pay and benefits won't get sacrificed to the fiscal gods after all. At the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction's public hearing yesterday, witness Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, told committee members cutting federal pay could ultimately hurt government programs. Elmendorf said it would drive good workers out of the government and hamper recruitment. The committee has been considering extending the federal pay freeze and re-thinking employee benefits. Co-chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said that might amount to debating pennies instead of dollars. (Federal News Radio)
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Oh please! Government employees are not going to give up their jobs! Will they do the job even less efficiently? Probably! A lot of them already don't do their jobs efficiently so we'd probably not even notice if it got worse.
As far as recruitment, there are a lot of people who would go to work at government jobs for less pay than they're paying existing people because the pay would probably still be better than in the non-government sector.
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