Overpaid Federal Employees

[无名的]

Here's a timely article... please feel free to defend this bullshyt. Confirms what I've said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...c963bc-53e3-11e4-ba4b-f6333e2c0453_story.html

Tens of thousands of federal workers are being kept on paid leave for at least a month — and often for longer stretches that can reach a year or more — while they wait to be punished for misbehavior or cleared and allowed to return to work, government records show.

During a three-year period that ended last fall, more than 57,000 employees were sent home for a month or longer. The tab for these workers exceeded $775 million in salary alone.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

There is no "Pie".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/

Nationwide, 25% of military families – 620,000 households – need help putting food on the table, according to a study by Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks.

"The results are alarming," says Bob Aiken, chief executive officer of Feeding America. "It means that people in America have to make trade-offs. They have to pick between buying food for their children or paying for utilities, rent and medicine."

One in seven Americans – 46 million people – rely on food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families, the study found.

"Hunger exists in literally every county in America," Aiken says. "It's an urban problem, it's a suburban problem, and it's a rural problem."

Linda Patterson, executive director of Lorton Community Action Center, says stereotypes of the people who need food assistance are misleading.

"The people who come here are hard workers. They are employed. They are the school bus drivers, the lab techs in doctors offices, receptionists, the janitors who clean the floor of your children's school," Patterson says. "They just can't make ends meet because some kind of crisis has hit them."

"Please sir, may I have some of the pie?"

"Drive to North Dakota and get an oil drilling job, kid."

 

[Kritic]

the difference is that its our tax dollars overpaying.
That money could be put to better use...instead we are wasting a lot on nonsense.

What a private company does isnt my business.
They have to answer to the shareholders.

what a private company does becomes your business when they spend millions of dollars influencing public policy through "lobbying".

 

[DEAD7]

what a private company does becomes your business when they spend millions of dollars influencing public policy through "lobbying".

Policy makers keeping lobbying legal is our business, and something we need to address...


Why is govt. never held responsible for keeping the practice alive? why do we point the finger at the lobbyist rather than those elected to serve us, who are paid by us?

 

[Kritic]

Policy makers keeping lobbying legal is our business, and something we need to address...


Why is govt. never held responsible for keeping the practice alive? why do we point the finger at the lobbyist rather than those elected to serve us, who are paid by us?

too bad you got got with a smiley and decided to take the L..

that wasn't even a real world argument they came with... that's some lame as capitalism free market 101 argument that can be easily shot down..

 

[FAH1223]

I need to get a Federal job

I've heard both ends of the spectrum. Some work crazy hours... others are chillin

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

the difference is that its our tax dollars overpaying.
That money could be put to better use...instead we are wasting a lot on nonsense.

What a private company does isnt my business.
They have to answer to the shareholders.

Millions spent to pay CEOs arent wasted

My company has been through 4 CEOs over the last 8 yrs... company is still profitable and ticking away. The importance of a CEO is overrated.

End of the day though we still have to respect legal decisions private companies make But that respect doesn't mean not having opinions on them

 

[Robbie3000]

Maybe the real problem is that the private sector should be paying their rank and file more money.

But of course the average American idiot is a crab trying to pull someone DOWN to their level. That's what this nation has been reduced to.

Came in to post this. It seems government unlike the private sector hasn't completely shytted on it's workers. Pensions, pay that has kept up with inflation and productivity gains, respect for the rank and file?

How dare they?

 

[Robbie3000]

I wonder how much executive level employees are paid at private companies vs. government agencies.

 

[无名的]

Came in to post this. It seems government unlike the private sector hasn't completely shytted on it's workers. Pensions, pay that has kept up with inflation and productivity gains, respect for the rank and file?

How dare they?

The words of someone who doesn't have a clue...

 

[Yapdatfool]

Came in to post this. It seems government unlike the private sector hasn't completely shytted on it's workers. Pensions, pay that has kept up with inflation and productivity gains, respect for the rank and file?

How dare they?

Yea, stability & incentives at the workplace should be nonexistent: drives innovation, promotes hard work & competition at bargain rates. Why, its the american way

Oh sure, the private sector says they can't afford it, they ALWAYS say they can't afford to, while they rake in record profits, for the shareholders & upper management. No, I repeat NO re-investing in their workers, just lay them off, they aren't needed anyway, that's why we lay them off. Better still, fire them with cause so they don't get unemployment, even though there is no cause.

 

[Brown_Pride]

the difference is that its our tax dollars overpaying.
That money could be put to better use...instead we are wasting a lot on nonsense.

What a private company does isnt my business.
They have to answer to the shareholders.

sometimes. Other times we bailout companies and they sue us. Other times we the taxpayers bail out companies and they give CEO bonuses. Other times the company exist solely as a vendor to the US government. Our tax dollars make it into the pockets of more than a few CEOs.

 

[DEAD7]

sometimes. Other times we bailout companies and they sue us. Other times we the taxpayers bail out companies and they give CEO bonuses. Other times the company exist solely as a vendor to the US government. Our tax dollars make it into the pockets of more than a few CEOs.

 

[Robbie3000]

The words of someone who doesn't have a clue...

As a contractor, I work with Federal employees everyday.

You just sound bitter and jealous. I bet you are an underpaid contractor.

You green.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

my mom works as a civilian for the navy.....she's got it pretty nice. Gets about $100k a year and only goes in the office 2 days a week now. Works the other two at home. Pension is killer. Got grandfathered in from the old days when federal workers didn't have to pay into social security, so she's never had to pay it in her life practically. Something is going to come to a head (probably underfunded pensions).