The Federal Government Salary Increase for 2010 is in, and I’m speechless…. What world does the government live in? Surely not ours!!!
Let me start with this statistic…. The average federal employee has a salary of $71,206. The average private sector employee makes nearly $31K less at $40,331. Does this sound fair to you?
According to USA Today, the number of federal workers whose salaries equaled or exceeded $100,000 jumped by 5 percent during the recession. A five percent jump! So, while the rest of the world is cutting back, the government is giving themselves salary increases.
“When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000,” USA Today reported.
The hypocrisy of this Federal Government Salary Increase for 2010, comes after 7.3 million people have lost their jobs! How about showing a little restraint? Does this make anyone else frustrated? If so, tell me about it below.
Greed and corruption is apparent in just about every government all over the world, including ours here in the
U.S. It always amazes me that the generation that protested so much against big money and power mongers are now the ones stuffing their pockets as much as they can while thy grasp to hold power, protecting their own at the benefit of everyone else. We need to start organizing peaceful marches and demonstrations on every state’s capitol demading each politician take a 25% cut in their pay, surrender their parachute retirement plan and invest in a 401K and enrol in the medicare plan they say is so just and forfeit their free healthcare plan. But that won’t happen until the middle class is entirely wiped out, which won’t be long. We are heading to a two class society and once we do, there will be a form of uprising.