By Mr. Curmudgeon
While the nation’s unemployment rate hovers a mere 3 percent shy of Great Depression levels, the bloodless automatons populating our bloated federal mis-government have little to worry about. According to USA TODAY, “The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession…Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months – and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.” Luckily for our well-compensated “public servants,” President Obama has no Pay Czar breathing down his lackey's necks.
Government affairs director for the Federal Managers Association, Jessica Klement, told USA TODAY that federal salaries are a mere 26% of those received in the private sector. In the words of Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, “you lie.” According to the article:
“The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.”
Before you get hot under the collar about Obama’s “spread the wealth” tendencies, the federal wage increase was the brainchild of “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush in 2008 – a fitting farewell by a spend-happy and confused Republican administration. USA TODAY reports that, “When the Federal Aviation Administration chief's salary rose, nearly 1,700 employees' had their salaries lifted above $170,000, too.”
Despite the phony Republican-Democrat debate, both political parties believe that the larger our government becomes, a happier and more prosperous our nation we will have. The dysfunctional two-party system that produced our current economic calamity, uses the crisis to build a modern-day 18th Century French aristocracy in Washington.
Our rulers busy themselves with health care takeovers costing trillions of dollars, while planning even more stimulus spending. And, why shouldn’t they? Many Americans believe that something-for-nothing government only costs us money. As the wise Edmund Burke said, “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” “Compassionate conservatism” and “hope and change” are manifestations of an illusion that only reinforces Washington’s royal contempt for the deluded commoners – We The People.
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