Just in time for Christmas, President Obama signed an executive order on Monday giving a 1 percent pay raise for federal employees. The raise follows a four year hiatus from salary increases for federal workers, although most federal employees have apparently seen their pay increase via promotion or performance. The first increased paycheck will kick in on January 1.
President Obama’s reward to the federal workforce follows his longstanding belief that government work ought to be a first option for Americans. Nonetheless, Obama’s decision to raise federal pay only widens the income inequality gap between federal workers and private sector employees; as of 2011, the average private sector employee made $59,804 in salary, and $28,000 in benefits, while the average federal workers made $74,436 in salary and $40,000 in benefits.
They deserve a raise if you want to work for a pvt company fine but don't complain when someone else takes a test and works for the government YOU Choose.
that should be the official portrait of that doofus that hangs in the white house.
ReplyDeleteThey deserve a raise if you want to work for a pvt company fine but don't complain when someone else takes a test and works for the government YOU Choose.
ReplyDeleteCorrect i thought republicans believed in a free market and choice you can't have it both Ways.
Deleteisn't Obama just adorable...
ReplyDeleteYou do not give any raises when you are going broke. If anything, it should be a decrease.
ReplyDeleteDuh!
Why is this not originated in the House, like it's supposed to?
ReplyDeleteisn't he f n sweet
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