While the U.S. economy continues to suck, unemployment holds at a very high level, and employers are cutting salaries and benefits at every turn, one important employer is actually paying 11 times more people $150,000-a-year salaries than it did five years ago. And that employer
Assumes EVERY federal employee makes $150K and they all get a 10% pay cut, the savings will be $31B. That ain't nothin', and it's also less than a few weeks of that war in Iraq the Repubicans loved.
I think tax brackets, standard deductions and congressional pay should be tied to multiples of the minimum wage. Want to move those high tax brackets up? Just raise the minimum wage.
So you can be a member of the US Military and make $24,000 per year, or you can take the training Uncle Sam paid for and become a military "contractor" and make $150,000?
The T-Baggers seem dead set on having the Federal government operated by low-paid amateurs (term limits anyone?). In other words, let's run our government like a fast food outlet. Why can't high school dropouts audit our tax returns? And regulate Wall Street millionaires?
A couple of times standing in line at the bank (back when I used to actually go into the bank) I would call out "Did anyone lose a bundle of cash with a rubber band around it?"
When someone would say "Yes!" - and someone always did - I"d say "Great. I just found the rubber band."
When the right wing nutz want to push to preserve the Bush Tax Cuts, someone earning $250,000 a year isn't the least bit wealthy.
However, if the Federal government is paying an employee $150,000 a year that's a fortune and that person is wildly overpaid.
OK - which is it?
Government work: the only sector of the market-based economy where paying people more to attract better employees is viewed as a negative.
Thank you!
Assumes EVERY federal employee makes $150K and they all get a 10% pay cut, the savings will be $31B. That ain't nothin', and it's also less than a few weeks of that war in Iraq the Repubicans loved.
I think tax brackets, standard deductions and congressional pay should be tied to multiples of the minimum wage. Want to move those high tax brackets up? Just raise the minimum wage.
So you can be a member of the US Military and make $24,000 per year, or you can take the training Uncle Sam paid for and become a military "contractor" and make $150,000?
The T-Baggers seem dead set on having the Federal government operated by low-paid amateurs (term limits anyone?). In other words, let's run our government like a fast food outlet. Why can't high school dropouts audit our tax returns? And regulate Wall Street millionaires?
Is this a wonderful country or what?
WHAT?
Armed and otherwise supplied by the lowest bidding contractor.
A couple of times standing in line at the bank (back when I used to actually go into the bank) I would call out "Did anyone lose a bundle of cash with a rubber band around it?"
When someone would say "Yes!" - and someone always did - I"d say "Great. I just found the rubber band."