House Republicans say federal workers are overpaid

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON (AP) — While conservative GOP governors are demanding concessions from state workers, House Republicans are making federal employees the next target.

Republicans at a House hearing on Wednesday complained that the 2.1 million-strong federal work force is overpaid compared with workers holding similar jobs in the private sector.

The personnel chief for federal workers cried foul. He said many federal employees earn too little.

Competing witnesses and House members threw out one statistic after another to fit their descriptions of an overpaid or underpaid government work force. In a larger sense, the hearing was part of Republican demands for cutbacks in Obama administration programs and spending.

On the wall directly behind Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform panel, majority Republicans had erected a large poster saying: "Employment Changes December 2008-December 2010; Private Sector Jobs -8,817,000; federal government jobs +157,000."

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[ReggieVeggie]

1. That's right! I think Repubs should take a pay cut

75%!

[TygrBright]

2. My god, those middle-class civil servants aren't feeling enough PAIN yet, huh? MORE PAIN, MORE!!!

For everyone except the Oligarchs and their bootlickers, anyway.

disgustedly,
Bright

[Tippy]

3. House Republicans are way overpaid........so are Republican Senators

[FormerDittoHead]

4. But military contracts? We can't afford NOT to pay what we do! n/t

[AmandaRuth]

5. state employees, then federal employees

public unions then all unions.

Then minimum wage... mark my words....

[Angry Dragon]

7. You forgot to mention that the elected officials will

let private industry steal private pensions because they need the money to create jobs

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Well, come on. How else are Americans going to compete with

foreign slave labor without at little slave labor of our own?

[LiberalEsto]

6. I guess they won't be satisfied until almost everybody

is out of work, or working for 10 cents an hour, or working for free as slaves.

[jtrockville]

8. They should lead by example, no?

Take the first cut out of their own hides.

[handmade34]

9. I would be ok

with GOP reps start by adjusting their pay to about $50 - $75k/year