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Philip Klein cranks out a simple chart to try and explain what the proposed federal pay freeze will do to help our struggling economy:
Not a lot of help goin' on there.
I realize it's kinda small, but even a larger version of the image fails to show the cuts reductions frozen non-increases.
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Comments (15)
IIRC from Zippy's announcem... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jay Wills | November 30, 2010 7:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
IIRC from Zippy's announcement, the freeze is in place for two years, but the $28 billion number comes from a five-year estimate. More of that SmartPower (tm) thingee, I guess.
1. Posted by Jay Wills | November 30, 2010 7:26 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:26
2. Posted by DaveD | November 30, 2010 7:33 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Well, the every day, rational American realizes this is not much help. To a liberal, this pay freeze is probably considered a major sacrifice (and likely ideological heresy).
2. Posted by DaveD | November 30, 2010 7:33 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:33
3. Posted by TexBob | November 30, 2010 7:42 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Big deal.
how bout eliminating 20% of the non-military federal jobs and bringing salaries in line with the private sector...Oh yeah, no pensions, just a 401K program....Oh, yeah, one more thing. Obamacare for all federal workers.
3. Posted by TexBob | November 30, 2010 7:42 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:42
4. Posted by Ken D. | November 30, 2010 7:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Let's start cutting federal jobs Government payrolls are bloated and need to be reduced. The private sector has certainly had to trim payrolls.
4. Posted by Ken D. | November 30, 2010 7:45 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:45
5. Posted by GarandFan | November 30, 2010 7:46 PM | Score: -2 (4 votes cast)
Just more of Barry Shakespeare's nonsense. "Full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING."
Next week Barry will trumpet that with the 'savings' made, he'll be able to spend the money 'saved' on other 'social justice' projects.
5. Posted by GarandFan | November 30, 2010 7:46 PM |
Score: -2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:46
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | November 30, 2010 7:59 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
FYI, the mind of a leftist does not process much less understand objective items such as pie charts; you'd have a better chance of explaining quantum physics to a lobotomized donkey.
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | November 30, 2010 7:59 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 19:59
7. Posted by yttik | November 30, 2010 8:13 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I don't know the situation with those jobs, but I'm not even sure Obama can really freeze wages. There's some unions absolutely outraged and talking about their contracts. It's kind of funny, I thought the unions supported Obama?
We had a city manager here who passed a salary freeze. It lasted about a week before a judge told him he was breaking employment law.
7. Posted by yttik | November 30, 2010 8:13 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 20:13
8. Posted by Brian The Adequate | November 30, 2010 8:14 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Caesar-
Leftists and Lobotomized Donkeys are not an equivalent set?
I never noticed a difference.
8. Posted by Brian The Adequate | November 30, 2010 8:14 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 20:14
9. Posted by fremont | November 30, 2010 8:54 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
many federal employees making over $100,000 a year are high school dropouts. while employees with actual jobs to do like border patrol agents
are paid half as much. feds couldnt meet affirmative action goals if they required a high school diploma.
9. Posted by fremont | November 30, 2010 8:54 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 20:54
10. Posted by Billll | November 30, 2010 9:13 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
You fools! The pay freeze is to keep the fat paychecks from being cut!
10. Posted by Billll | November 30, 2010 9:13 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 21:13
11. Posted by Jim Addison | November 30, 2010 9:20 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Actually the "pay freeze" applies only to cost-of-living increases, and NOT to "step" increases or bonuses.
As usual, Obama's lofty rhetoric doesn't match his pathetic results. Worthless buffoon . . .
11. Posted by Jim Addison | November 30, 2010 9:20 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 30, 2010 21:20
12. Posted by Les Nessman | December 1, 2010 12:02 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Actually the "pay freeze" applies only to cost-of-living increases, and NOT to "step" increases or bonuses."
^^this^^
This is what needs to be made clear.
If you are a govt employee, you may still get more and more money year after year.
That sound like a "freeze" to you, America?
12. Posted by Les Nessman | December 1, 2010 12:02 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 1, 2010 00:02
13. Posted by john | December 1, 2010 2:43 AM | Score: -2 (8 votes cast)
Here's another pie chart, one with even a tinier sliver than the one you show on yours.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/what-socialism-looks-like/18675/
Are we to understand that your sliver represents an insignificant effect, yet the one above represents a call to revolution?
13. Posted by john | December 1, 2010 2:43 AM |
Score: -2 (8 votes cast)
Posted on December 1, 2010 02:43
14. Posted by Don L | December 1, 2010 6:39 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Let's face reality. This is show and tell -Washington style, wth the Photoshopped messiah performing his best immitation of a real miracle - raising federal employee budgets while claiming that something was cut!
This is the left's economic version of "I did not have "sex" with that woman..."
14. Posted by Don L | December 1, 2010 6:39 AM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 1, 2010 06:39
15. Posted by 914 | December 1, 2010 9:52 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
More of barrys boastful hogwash.
15. Posted by 914 | December 1, 2010 9:52 AM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 1, 2010 09:52