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Personal comment by
John
Every little bit
helps
There's this crazy representative from Arizona
who has the audacity to suggest her colleagues in
Washington take a five percent pay cut to do their
part in stemming the $14,000,000,000,000.00 federal
deficit. Can you imagine the nerve? Why, our
representatives have not had a pay decrease in 77
years. And just because the national economy is
suffering (as so often described as the worst since
the Great Depression) should this be any reason for
them to sacrifice a little too? Gosh, everyone
knows they are just barely squeaking by on their
$174,000 annual salary, plus a posh benefit
package.
Recently, I read the average federal employee
annual salary is $77,000, and this does not include
their wonderful benefits, while the average Joe
Blow's annual salary was $47,000, and has recently
dropped to $41,000. And again by comparison, the
national unemployment rate is reported at about 10%
(some estimates are higher) while those in
Washington seem immune from the threat of recession
and layoffs. Why heck, the news reported that 7,000
new federal employees were hired just this month.
Great work if you can get it.
Could the answer be that we all should be
feeding from a federal trough?
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