House Republicans say federal workers are overpaid

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These Republicans should put heir money where their mouth is and take a pay cut. Won't happen.

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WASHINGTON —
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."

A sign next to it said: "2010 Average Total Compensation; Government Worker $101,628; Private Worker $60,000."

John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, said President Barack Obama has frozen annual pay increases for two years. Before Obama took office, he said, government employees received raises "in virtual lock step with the private sector labor market regardless of who controlled Congress or the White House."

Berry said many federal workers are underpaid and many comparisons are phony. He noted the government doesn't employ retail clerks, waiters, short order cooks or other specialties whose salaries are included in pay comparisons. The few cooks employed usually work in prisons and have responsibility over inmates, he said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014448347_apusfederalpay.html

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1. Silly wabbit, paycuts are for people who actually work

But BONUSES are for CEO's that drive a firm into the dirt!

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2. aren't they federal employees?