The most subservient and dependable constituency for the Democratic party and Barack Obama has been the unions that represent government workers such as American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO).
Richard Trumpka Leader of AFL-CIO
Now Obama has repaid their worship by declaring a national emergency for the sole purpose of holding their pay down. Their unwavering support has been repaid with the back of his hand.
Full coverage is in today’s Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama blocked large pay raises slated for tens of thousands of federal employees Monday,overriding statutory formulas to hold pay increases to 2% in 2010.
Invoking the “national emergency”declared after the Sept. 11,2001,terrorist attacks,the president said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that under pay formulas set in 1990,federal employees with pay levels set according to comparable local wages are set for average pay increases of 18.9%.
White House officials say the declaration was routine. Ever since Congress passed the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act in 1990,presidents have been invoking the emergency clause to hold down pay increases due under the formula that mandates wages comparable to local pay levels.
That has created a yawning gulf. If Mr. Obama did nothing,the comparability formula would dictate a 16.5% pay increase,on top of the 2.4% cost of living increase.
The way I see government employees are no more entitled to a cost of living increase than are those who are on Social Security. According to the SSA senior citizens won't be getting a cost of living increase in either 2010 or 2011. Why should we be any less deserving of an increase? We have to buy groceries. We have to buy gasoline. We have to pay utility bills. And most of us already do it on far less than any 'government employee'! I wrote to my senators and congresswoman when I heard there would be no increase in my SS. I told them 'none for me,none for you'. I also told them I don't expect to see any increases in my grocery bills,gasoline prices,utility bills or any other necessities for the next two years! And guess what. I haven't received a reply from a single one of them. Our government at work!
You mean our COMMUNIST government at work!
The stupid mob of senior citizens voted in droves for the marxist president.
They deserve what they are getting,period.
Amen to that! Why should taxpayers'money go to pay for wage increases for people that are systematically destroying our country,and will get a lifetime of benefits once they leave their posts?
I am a senior and I did not vote for Obama if anyone that thought that he was for change deserves him. Not getting a cost of living increase for seniors shows you what they think of the old. This is the worst president we have ever had.
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