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restoreliberty Wrote: Oct 23, 2012 10:23 PM
The lie has been debunked over and over. The pay is higher, the retirement and health benefits are far in excess of the private sector, and the anciliary benefits are nothing short of disgusting. The taxpaying public is sick of the waste that is dumped into federal salaries and the sooner that we eliminate at least half of the civil services workers sucking the economy dry the better off the nation will be. Stop treading on us.
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Since I’ve been in Washington from more than 25 years, it takes something really remarkable to shock me. But when I read today that federal bureaucrats are supposedly underpaid, notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary, I thought somebody had sent me an article from the Onion.
But then I saw that the assertion of underpaid bureaucrats was put together by the stooges at the Federal Salary Council, a body controlled by government employee unions.
Here are some excerpts from a Federal News Radio report about their preposterous claim.
The gap in pay between federal employees and private-sector workers...
Shocker: Bureaucrat-Dominated Panel Claims Bureaucrats Are Underpaid