GOP offers bill cutting pensions for new federal employees

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/22/gop-offers-bill-cutting-pensions-for-new-federal-employees/

By Sahil Kapur
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 -- 2:30 pm

WASHINGTON – New legislation introduced in the Senate would slash pensions for all federal employees hired starting 2013, invoking the argument that benefits for government workers are too generous and are a large contributor to budget deficits.

The "Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act," offered Thursday by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), would eliminate all pensions under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) but keep the Thrift Savings Plan in tact. The bill would also apply to members of Congress.

[CanonRay]

1. I knew this was coming...

[rpannier]

2. How many Tea Partiers work for the Fed?

How many have relatives that do?
This is a Dead Balloon for the republikkans

[zbdent]

3. not only that ...

how many government employees (and I'm not talking about currently in the military) are former service members? I remember that bit of "affirmative action" which was in place ... there was a few extra points in your favor in hiring if you served in the armed forces, ESPECIALLY if you were a veteran ...

so ...

Why do Republicans hate the veterans? Why isn't the "liberally biased media" pointing this out?

[BonnieJW]

4. Great.

I say all of them go first. No pensions for members of Congress or Senate. I worked for a large health care company several years ago. They hit a rough patch and the CEO asked everyone to submit ideas to cut costs. No executive could suggest cutting personnel as a method of cutting costs unless that executive was the first job to be cut.