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Washington, D.C. (AHN) - President George Bush on Wednesday overruled a pay raise required by law for federal employees, decreased "due to 'national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare.'"
In a letter addressed to the House and the Senate, Bush ordered the 12.5 percent locality pay increase scheduled for government workers January next year reduced to 0.5 percent.
President Bush Reduces Pay Raise For Federal Employees | November 29, 2007 | AHN (http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009298254 - broken link)
Gee. What a shock. He gets us in an unwinnable and illegal war, leaves a deficit the size of the earth for the next president to figure out, makes the oil companies wealthier than ever, works our soldiers to DEATH, then wont increase wages to government workers. Are we even supposed to be surprised at this pont? Amazing how he cant afford to protect our borders but can afford (or allow the future Americans to pay off) this POS war of his.
Government workers do not contribute millions and millions to the Republican Party nor do they funnel huge funds to the lobbyists and contractors. Oh darn, I was wrong. Government workers do the paperwork required to send the money to the contractors. I guess they should do it for free.
Billions for Blackhawk and a pittance for the Park Rangers, geologists and air traffic controllers. Yea! Gorgie! Way to go!
I hope the Federal employees remember this next November.
Government workers do not contribute millions and millions to the Republican Party nor do they funnel huge funds to the lobbyists and contractors. Oh darn, I was wrong. Government workers do the paperwork required to send the money to the contractors. I guess they should do it for free.
Billions for Blackhawk and a pittance for the Park Rangers, geologists and air traffic controllers. Yea! Gorgie! Way to go!
I hope the Federal employees remember this next November.
I'm a contractor.. and our company went through a contract negotiation back in April. Being a contractor is not all it's cracked up to be... seriously. The company gets the money to run the facility from the Navy, the Navy sets our pay -the company can't increase it without losing the contract to another company-, we can't even hire anybody without the Navy sticking their noses in. Oh, and we get pittance wages here for what we do, courtesy of the Navy.
And about the federal employees remembering it next november.. just because Bush is an idiot.. doesn't mean all republicans think the same way.
Just wanted to add my 2 cents in.
Another addition: Our contract ran out of supplies funds and we have no more toner for the printers. And we have to buy our supplies through the navy with contract money. If we went to the store and got what we needed, we could lose our contract.
Five years ago today: The White House quietly announced that federal workers would get a smaller pay raise because President Bush was freezing part of the increase, citing the fight against terrorism.
Back in the real world, no President would allow the full locality pay increase called for under the law (12.5% this year) to go into effect, simply because it's too expensive. There is no relationship at all to the permanent state of emergency that Bush has declared to have come into existence on 9-11-01. Nobody at all wants to throw $15+ billion into the bureaucracy, and that's what a full public/private parity increase would cost in Year-1, with more than that every year thereafter.
So this is really just the annual game of announcing how big a cut the White House wants to see in the number that the law results in. Under Bush's 3% proposal, federal workers in the DC area would actually receive a 3.49% increase, but it's not very likely that the 3% will be upheld. Bush just signed a 3.5% increase for the military, there is strong backing for pay-parity between the military and civilian sides on the Hill, and 3.5% is the number Congressional leaders have been batting around anyay, so there is a very good chance that the 3.5% number will prevail. That should give DC area folks a raise of just about 4% after all the numbers are in...
Wow...Bush actually gets a domestic policy issue RIGHT! This is a good start, but I would go even further...
As it is, the government and its tentacles intrude in every aspect of society, and every facet of life. It's out of control! We need to shrink it drastically, and restore our Constitutional freedoms. We need to actually cut the size of the civilian federal workforce! Not just reduce their pay. Whole departments need to be chopped. Programs need to be defunded, abolished, or privatized.
A reduction like this is a step in the right direction, but instead of a scalpel, Bush ought to be using a machete!
This is an annual event, and the same story has been published since the pay equalization promise was first made around 1990. President Clinton did the exact same thing each year when he was President too.
He gets us in an unwinnable and illegal war ... this POS war of his.
You mean the war in Iraq, which we are winning?! Not that the libmedia (ABCNNBCBS) would ever tell you that...
The violence and bloodshed in Iraq dwindles daily. Al Qaeda is on the run, and have more than worn out their "welcome." Iraqis are finally stepping up and taking their own country back. Life is gradually returning to normal—just like Germany and Japan after WWII.
Our guys in uniform have done a helluva job over there, and I believe most of them will be home sooner than later.
Pity. All of those petrified sloths snoozing away in the bureacracy won't get paid more to do nothing.
About time Georgie did something right.
Hilarious! Amen...
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I'm a contractor.. and our company went through a contract negotiation back in April. Being a contractor is not all it's cracked up to be... seriously. The company gets the money to run the facility from the Navy, the Navy sets our pay -the company can't increase it without losing the contract to another company-, we can't even hire anybody without the Navy sticking their noses in. Oh, and we get pittance wages here for what we do, courtesy of the Navy.
Cut MORE!
