{"id":7874,"date":"2010-11-30T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2010-11-30T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:24:51","slug":"pampered-federal-employees-rage-at-prospect-of-mere-wage-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7874\/pampered-federal-employees-rage-at-prospect-of-mere-wage-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Pampered Federal Employees “Rage” at Prospect of Mere Wage Freeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign of the times from today’s New York Daily News<\/em>:\u00a0 “Federal Workers Rage Over President Obama’s Two-Year Wage Freeze.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s see…\u00a0 Federal employment has grown 17% since 2007, and federal employees’ total compensation has risen 37% in the past decade (compared to 9% for private sector employees), according to The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> and USA Today<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Further, average federal employee compensation reached $123,000 in 2009, more than twice the $61,000 earned by the average private employee.<\/p>\n

So in what moral universe are federal workers justified in reacting to a very modest two-year wage freeze proposal with “rage” and by labeling it a “slap” when they haven’t faced the brutal layoffs, salary reductions and cuts in health coverage their private counterparts must endure?\u00a0 A majority of Americans surveyed<\/a> favor federal workforce reductions<\/em> and salary cuts<\/em>, so perhaps they should behave less like spoiled Greek, French and English rioters and instead express gratitude to American taxpayers who continue to subsidize their relative good fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sign of the times from today’s New York Daily News:\u00a0 “Federal Workers Rage Over President Obama’s Two-Year Wage Freeze.” Let’s see…\u00a0 Federal employment has grown 17% since 2007, and federal employees’ total compensation has risen 37% in the past decade (compared to 9% for private sector employees), according to The Wall Street Journal and USA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,81,59,19,2129,2128,27,24,61,71,28,2127],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-federal-employee","tag-federal-workers","tag-jobs","tag-obama","tag-spending","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party","tag-wage-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}