Still in partial turkey-induced coma, I am emerging from the holiday fog to find that the Senate is going balls-out in regulating our food supply, voting down a ban on earmarks, and voting against repealing the b/s 1099 reporting for small businesses that got crammed into the Health Care Reform. There has yet to be any movement on the Bush Tax Cuts that expire at the end of the year. I did hear the Bush Tax Cut Expiration referred to as The Obama Tax Hike. At this point, that is exactly what it is.
There has been the pay freeze on Federal Workers, but I am still trying to find out exactly who these freezes affect. And please don't fail to realize that salaries have been frozen at $150,000.00 and more, the number of people who earn that amount has doubled since the Coronation, and that amount is a reflection of about a 30% disparity between what a Federal worker makes versus what a person in the private sector makes for doing the same work. So you freeze them at a 30% disparity for 2 years...Exactly how long would you have to extend this freeze before the private sector, through periodic raises and cost of living increases, caught up with the Feds in pay rates??? Anyone give me a number? I am not that financially savvy or mathematically literate that I can give you a number on this, but I know damned well that 2 years is not going to cut it. You want to share the sacrifice? Cut the federal workforce! Cut the federal pay to be in line with the private sector! Get the federal employees' benefits in line with ours! Don't vote for another goddamn bill that institutes another goddamn government agency that will take over how our food is produced! How much is THAT going to cost?!
Wow...it's going to be a long 2 years...
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