Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Government Pay Raises--It's an Inside Con Job
This isn't a CON job.
Our elected officials are flat out lying to us.
It couldn't be any clearer than this...
Our elected officials are flat out lying to us.
It couldn't be any clearer than this...
Iain Murray has some REAL facts:
"At the White House Twitter Town Hall on July 6, President Obama reassured the nation that he and his staff share its pain. He said, 'People who work in the White House, they've had their pay frozen since I came in, our high-wage folks. So they haven't had a raise in two and a half years, and that's appropriate, because a lot of ordinary folks out there haven't either.' Unfortunately, the only thing the President was being economical with here was the truth. Most White House staffers have received substantial raises in that time. Sadly, that is symptomatic of how government works in America today.
As soon as the President made that statement, Gawker's John Cook looked at the numbers. He found that last year 75% of White House staffers received raises at a time most workers around the country saw no raises at all. This year he found, 'Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146—or 54%—received raises. The average salary increase was 8%. If you look at only staffers who got raises, the average increase was twice that.'
Yes, in the Bizarro World of Washington you can get a salary increase without getting a raise—with a pay freeze supposedly in place. Government pay is literally out of control."
