Green Energy
I'm glad that I receive the print edition of the Washington Post because a gem such as the following comes along quite often:
Additional statistics HERE, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Take a look!
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Federal Employees
I'm glad that I receive the print edition of the Washington Post because a gem such as the following comes along quite often:
Federal Answers: How would you be affected if you had to pay more into your pension plan?
We asked:Contrast the above with this one, which also appears on the same page:
What would be the personal financial impact of President Obama’s call for an increase in contributions by federal employees to their pension plan of 1.2 percentage points?
You said:
I am a federal retiree (37 years of service). Here are my thoughts on the proposals being tossed around regarding federal workers (and retirees), including paying more for retirement.
■We grouse that we are not paid enough; we have to pay too much for health insurance, blah, blah, blah. The truth is: We are at the top of the employment food chain. Where else does one get a pension indexed for inflation, and one for which we pay a pittance? The rule of thumb is that we draw within two and a half years everything we pay in. To date, I have drawn very close to half a million dollars; if I live another 20 years (which is reasonable), I will draw another 1.5 million bucks. Did I “earn” that by anything I did while working for the government. Nope. Should my retirement pay be cut? Yep.
■Why do I have to pay Federal Employees Health Benefits premiums and still have to have Medicare (I did not take Part B)? Why cannot federal retirees at least be given the chance to opt out? And should I pay more for my FEHB plan? Yep.
■So many workers in this country are deeply hurting. One in 6 of us lives in poverty, and still federal workers and their unions . . . moan about how awful the government is to them. Ask any federal retiree, and you will be told something to the effect of “you could cut the federal workforce a good 30 percent and not lose much.” Think of what a money saver that would be.
Charles W. Walton
I think the federal workforce has been targeted enough. We took a two-year pay freeze without blinking an eye, but asking us to fund more into our retirement is asking for a pay cut on top of the pay freeze. . . .The FERS retirement system is terrible to begin with in terms of money received after retirement. Paying more for less is asking us federal workers too much.In my view, America is already embroiled in the early stages of class warfare. Frankly, I can't imagine that things will get any better for several years. Resentments are piling up, and, of course, Obama is promoting those resentments via his tax-the-rich theme. Were Americans not patient, we'd already have reaching the tipping point.
Where were the overpaid contractors and private industry employees when the economy was robust and the federal workforce just chugged along, making lots less money? They said nothing but collected their large paychecks. Now that the wheels have turned, they want us to sacrifice for their benefit.I’ve been a federal employee for 26 years and plan on retiring in a little over three years, and I feel the public has had their hand in my pocket long enough.
Joe Plunkard
Additional statistics HERE, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Take a look!
- Company White House Awarded No-bid Contract To Build Obamacare Exchange Previously Mishandled More Than 20 Government It Projects
From the Washington Post: The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement...
- Irs Employee Union: We Don’t Want Obamacare
IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President...
- Obama Admin Ignores Federal Law. Again.
Under Federal Law employees who may be laid off because of sequestration must be given 60 days notice before the layoff occurs. That means that they must receive those notices no later than November 1 if sequestration looks like it may happen. The elction,...
- At 15 Federal Agencies, Death More Common Than Job Loss
Maybe they are the most professional, hard working, successful, productive working group of all time anywhere?No?Is that a smirk I see?USA TODAY found that nearly 60% of firings occur in the first two years of employment, mostly workers on probation and...
-
Paul Ryan's Freaky-Good Plan for Making America Solvent, Forever From Ace: The only plan which actually saves our entitlement programs. To make the economy -- on which all else hinges -- hum, Ryan proposes tax reform. Masochists would be permitted...