{"id":39005,"date":"2013-12-24T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39005"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:27:48","slug":"benevolent-emporer-grants-pay-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39005","title":{"rendered":"Benevolent Emporer grants pay raises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s how it sounded to me when I read the LA Times article<\/a> about the president who “grants” a pay raise to the troops and the federal workers;<\/p>\n

President Obama issued an executive order Monday granting civilian and military employees a 1% pay raise in 2014.<\/p>\n

Military employees have received a raise each year that Obama has been in the White House, but civilian pay has been flat over the last three years as members of Congress have tangled over the budget and the federal deficit.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail in 2010 and 2012, some Republicans targeted the pay scale of federal employees, suggesting that inflated government employment was contributing to the nation\u2019s fiscal problems, although their salaries make up a small portion of the overall budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like the part about federal employees’ salaries make up a “small portion of the overall budget”. I’m pretty sure that the LA Times wouldn’t say the same thing about veterans’ pensions being a small portion of the overall defense budget since the line lately has been that retires are responsible for the Defense budget being busted. <\/p>\n

I remember in the last decade, my workmates complained that President Bush “only” gave them a 3 1\/2% cost of living raise. It’s funny how I haven’t heard them complaining about getting no COLA increases the last few years. I guess that would make them racist, or something if they said something today. Either that or they’d have to blame it on “Congress”. <\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t need the pay raise, I controlled my costs by moving out of DC. They probably don’t need it, either, well, except those idiots who had to dip into their 401ks when they missed one pay check last Fall, you know when the government shut down because Congress wanted to delay the healthcare plan for a year, which has become the policy of this administration in recent days.<\/p>\n

But it seems kind of incongruous that the President signed his executive order while on a millions of dollars vacation in Hawai’i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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