Tuesday, December 24, 2013
True, Obama doesn't have a lot of leeway
But he might have been more generous if he had given federal and military employees exclusive rights to dumpster diving on federal and military property.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order Monday granting civilian and military employees a 1 percent pay raise in 2014.1% won't even cover the latest screwing on federal pensions but what the hell! Merry Christmas peons!
Military employees have received a raise each year that Obama has been in the White House, but civilian pay has been flat over the last three years as members of Congress have tangled over the budget and the federal deficit.
On the campaign trail in 2010 and 2012, some Republicans targeted the pay scale of federal employees, suggesting that inflated government employment was contributing to the nation's fiscal problems, although their salaries make up a small portion of the overall budget...
"In the case of federal civilian employees, this will be the first cost-of-living adjustment since 2010, and given that these hardworking public servants have already contributed nearly $114 billion toward deficit reduction and some were furloughed as a result of the shutdown and the sequester, it is long overdue," Hoyer said in a statement. "As the economy improves after the most serious downturn in decades, this increase is the right decision and correctly honors the concept of pay parity that I have long supported."
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