Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
So a Republican congress increases the wages for Federal employees. Does this by increasing the wages for the higher ups and by higher defense spending pork. This will be reversed by a Democrat congress, but in the statistics it will show up for 2009-2012 as the period of increased federal spending?

The Republicans are the most deviously clever political force on the planet.

Edit: Also, might as well repeat that: federal employees make 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs.
According to a federal employee who has a vested interest in making us think that.

Also, the Congress has been Democratic since 2006 - it was the Democratic congressmen who raised the salaries.

Except that the reason for civil service is because the privet sector could not be trusted with the quality of work...
In America we have a saying, "Good enough for government work".

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