Are federal workers overpaid?

Are federal workers overpaid?

WASHINGTON – When it comes to pay, federal workers receive benefits that averaged about $41,791 in 2009. When you factor in salaries and those benefits, which include pensions, federal civil servants earned about $123,049 in 2009.

By comparison, private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Let me answer the question as clearly as possible … YES

Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, tells USA TODAY the data are not useful in a direct public to private pay comparison.

Public union employees say the gap reflects the growing skill and education levels needed for most federal jobs, while the government farms out lower paid jobs to the private sector.

Well surprise, surprise a Union boss thinks they have skills and education – yep it take a lot of skills to set all day and surf for porn and I takes even more education to fill up you hard drive with it and then burn it to disc just to store in your office. That’s Ivy league genius at work there.

A budget analyst at the Cato Institute believes federal workers are overpaid.

Gee who to side with a Union entitlement boss or the Cato Institute… hmmm I’ll go with Cato.

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Facts vs. Propaganda

First the FACTS -

Fed set to downgrade outlook for US

The Federal Reserve is set to downgrade its assessment of US economic prospects when it meets on Tuesday to discuss ways to reboot the flagging recovery.

Faced with weak economic data and rising fears of a double-dip recession, the Federal Open Market Committee is likely to ensure its policy is not constraining growth and to use its statement to signal greater concern about the economy. It is, however, unlikely to agree big new steps to boost growth.

From the White House the PROPAGANDA …

A Summer of Recovery

With tens of thousands of projects funded and millions of Americans on the job today, it’s hard to believe that it’s only been 16 months since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And with so many jobs saved and created already, you might think that the Recovery Act’s greatest impact is behind us.

But it’s not.

As the summer heats up, it is becoming clear that it could quite possibly be the most active season yet when it comes to recovering our economy. There are Recovery Act-funded projects breaking ground across the country that are creating quality jobs for Americans and economic growth for businesses, large and small.

This summer is sure to be a Summer of Economic Recovery.

From The Hill the assessment …

Obama tries to sell ‘recovery summer’ amid slow economy

President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate.

Obama and his Cabinet officials will fan out across the country over the next few days to spread the message to voters about how effective their $787 billion recovery plan has been, an effort they’re calling “recovery summer.”

The administration’s message has run into several negative economic headwinds that have led to worries the economy is at risk of entering a double-dip recession, not a recovery.

So while Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the lying scumbags in the Democrat Party try to claim we are in recovery – the reality speak otherwise. Meanwhile while you scrap and struggle to get buy the Obama’s live large on your money.

Michelle Antionette’s vacation – $75,000.00 per day
While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain
Obama To Play Presidential Pickup With NBA Stars

In the real world …
City of Camden, NJ Broke – Closing Public Library System
Governor of Wyoming threatens to sell chunk of Grand Teton – Schools Broke
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
California – Place Your Bet, Help the Debt
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down

But it’s not all bad news – made you’ll get luck and find a rare comic book in the basement…
Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure

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Obama is no Reagan

Here is an article that says Obama is no Reagan… well no kidding. Obama is not worthy to set at the same desk Reagan sat at better yet be compared to him – Reagan loved this country, Obama not so much.

Obama the Velcro president

Reporting from Washington — If Ronald Reagan was the classic Teflon president, Barack Obama is made of Velcro.

Somehow, I think saying Obama is made of Velcro will be called racist by those on the left (don’t ask me to explain it).

Through two terms, Reagan eluded much of the responsibility for recession and foreign policy scandal. In less than two years, Obama has become ensnared in blame.

That’s because Reagan was making things better, not worse.

Hoping to better insulate Obama, White House aides have sought to give other Cabinet officials a higher profile and additional public exposure. They are also crafting new ways to explain the president’s policies to a skeptical public.

You will never shut this narcissist up – they have to be the center of attention good or bad.

But Obama remains the colossus of his administration — to a point where trouble anywhere in the world is often his to solve.

Narcissistic personality disorder look it up – the man-child has it in spades.

The president is on the hook to repair the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, stabilize Afghanistan, help fix Greece’s ailing economy and do right by Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official fired as a result of a misleading fragment of videotape.

What’s not sticking to Obama is a legislative track record that his recent predecessors might envy. Political dividends from passage of a healthcare overhaul or a financial regulatory bill have been fleeting.

Political dividends from passage of a healthcare overhaul or a financial regulatory bill? You are kidding me in your observation that envy has been fleeting  – nobody wanted it! The public is against it and we are sick of this little boy telling us what’s good for us.

Instead, voters are measuring his presidency by a more immediate yardstick: Is he creating enough jobs? So far the verdict is no, and that has taken a toll on Obama’s approval ratings. Only 46% approve of Obama’s job performance, compared with 47% who disapprove, according to Gallup’s daily tracking poll.

Gallup huh? Let’s have a look at the collective reality – the RCP average is 45% approve and 49.7 disapprove as of 7/31

Obama lately has tried to rip off the Velcro veneer. In a revealing moment during the oil spill crisis, he reminded Americans that his powers aren’t “limitless.” He told residents in Grand Isle, La., that he is a flesh-and-blood president, not a comic-book superhero able to dive to the bottom of the sea and plug the hole.

“I can’t suck it up with a straw,” he said.

I seems to remember Obama’s megalomaniacal line –  “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”  — anybody else remember that bullshit? Now he said that before the election and yet the drones still voted for his dumbass.

Clinching the Democratic nomination two years ago, Obama described the moment as an epic breakthrough when “we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless” and “when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Those towering goals remain a long way off. And most people would have preferred to see Obama focus more narrowly on the “good jobs” part of the promise.

What I said …

Unemployment has been rising — from 7.7% when Obama took office, to 9.5%. Last month, more than 2 million homes in the U.S. were in various stages of foreclosure — up from 1.7 million when Obama was sworn in.

“Folks just aren’t in a mood to hand out gold stars when unemployment is hovering around 10%,” said Paul Begala, a Democratic pundit.

You think so Captain Obvious?

But the Obama administration is about one man. Obama is the White House’s chief spokesman, policy pitchman, fundraiser and negotiator. No Cabinet secretary has emerged as an adequate surrogate. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner is seen as a tepid public speaker; Energy Secretary Steven Chu is prone to long, wonky digressions and has rarely gone before the cameras during an oil spill crisis that he is working to end.

So, more falls to Obama, reinforcing the Velcro effect: Everything sticks to him. He has opined on virtually everything in the hundreds of public statements he has made: nuclear arms treaties, basketball star LeBron James’ career plans; Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.

That’s because narcissist are control freaks and are of the opinion that no one can do anything but them – they believe they are the smartest idiot in the room and if they do not do it it can not be done – Reagan on the other hand was older, wiser and more mature and knew how to delegate – something the little man-child can’t do.

“Stylistically he creates some of those problems,” Eddie Mahe, a Republican political strategist, said in an interview. “His favorite pronoun is ‘I.’

Don’t forget – ‘me’ and ‘my’ – like I said NPD – Narcissistic personality disorder.

A new White House strategy is to forgo talk of big policy changes that are easy to ridicule. Instead, aides want to market policies as more digestible pieces. So, rather than tout the healthcare package as a whole, advisors will talk about smaller parts that may be more appealing and understandable — such as barring insurers from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions.

But at this stage, it may be late in the game to downsize either the president or his agenda.

Or what is known as piece-mill policies – keep your ears open for them.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) said: “The man came in promising change. He has a higher profile than some presidents because of his youth, his race and the way he came to the White House with the message he brought in. It’s naive to believe he can step back and have some Cabinet secretary be the face of the oil spill. The buck stops with his office.”

No Dick, the buck passing, finger pointing, not me mentality starts with his office.

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I smell a rat and it’s name is Robert Gibbs

Beltwat Bob Propaganda Minister

Beltway Bob Propaganda Minister

Gibbs: Democrats Could Lose House

“I think there’s no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There’s no doubt about that,” press secretary Robert Gibbs told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

I find the timing of this all to covenant – Gibbs and Pelosi in a all-to-public tiff over if the Democrats will or will not lose control of the House. Why? Well, I think it’s to build up a huge unrealistic expectation for the GOP in November so if the Democrats do get there ass handed to them that can act as if it was expected so it’s no big surprise and if they don’t loose as many as is being tossed around by the media then they can run around and say “See the Republicans failed to pick up as many seats as they thought so America loves us.” It’s a game and Pelosi in my opinion is feigning outrage when in reality she is trying to minimize the damage to the Democrat party brand… it’s all about face and the delicate chess game they play with information and how it is presented.

The Democrats as you know may suck at governing, but they are Oscar winners when it comes to manipulating the realities of the facts and trying to paint smiley faces on horror stories – remember it’s the Democrats that like to give mamby-pamby names to congressional bills that rip at the very fabric of the constitution. So remember when Beltway Bob is talking he’s lying, when Nancy Pelosi is talking she’s lying.

Here is the deal the Progressive Liberals like Obama, Pelosi, Gibbs are trying to motivate the Hispanic vote with the Arizona law suit, they are trying to motivate the Black vote with the Black Panthers case and they are trying to suppress the conservative vote by beginning to feign defeat early in effort to get them to stay home believing victory is secure – I know their game, you know their game and it’s not going to work… a well informed and motivates electorate is the fear of every totalitarian government and the Democrats are afraid.

It’s all a game…. a game they will lose.

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Oil Spill Timeline

Today is day 84!

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

LEADERSHIP! Missing from the current administration.

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Has your Representative signed?

Has your Representative signed the discharge petition to repeal ObamaCare? Mine – Ed “RINO” Whitfield hasn’t and will receiving a phone call from me tomorrow.

To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:

Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Steve King of Iowa, move to discharge the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration, and Appropriations from the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4972) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was referred to said committees on March 25, 2010, in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures, to wit:

To date there are 80 signers and here it the list.

Heritage spin-off targets ObamaCare in first grassroots campaign
Republican Rep. Steve King’s discharge petition aimed at repealing Obamacare gains 80 signatories



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Can the Government tell you want to eat?

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Well that was the question, but the real question involving the Constitution’s Commerce Clause that Senator Colburn asked was “Can the Government tell you what to buy?” – as in insurance as laid out in the Obama healthcare reform bill. Forcing a private citizen to buy a product from a private vendor is a violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause – Kagan refused to answer and as anyone knows a non-answer is a answer.

So Kagan equals a rubber stamp for Obama and to hell with what the Constitution says.

Oh it’s worth noting that Kagan played dumb (I think she was playing, but you never know) and never effectively answered the question – which in short means that if the ObamaCare goes to the Supreme court and it’s likely it will Kagan will side against the will of the people.

Sorry about the pithy post but I have to work, to pay taxes, so a bunch of lazy asses can set around and smoke crack.

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Movie of the Week #23 – Idiocracy

Idiocracy

I’ve actually avoided using this movie because it’s so close to real life nowadays and the object of movies is to escape reality – but I can’t do it and I have to post it and if you haven’t seen this movie yet get a roll of duct tape – tape up your head and watch it – it’s got electrolytes. (Watch the movie and you’ll get it.)

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Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

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Congressman Bob Etheridge Democrat!

RESIGN!

It’s what you would DEMAND a Republican to do.

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Is Obama admitting the STIMULUS FAILED?

Well no, but in a roundabout way what else could it mean?

Obama Appeals to Congress for $50 Billion in Emergency Aid

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing Congress to approve emergency aid money to support economic recovery and help avoid widespread layoffs of public workers, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Congressional leaders received a letter from the president asking for almost $50 billion for distribution to state and local governments, saying that increased spending is “urgent and unavoidable,” the Post reported. The money would protect the jobs of teachers, police and firefighters.

“Because the urgency is high—many school districts, cities and states are already being forced to make these layoffs,” Obama wrote, “these provisions must be passed as quickly as possible.”

Excuse me where the hell did that trillion in stimulus money go? Why can’t these state governments cuts spending and why is it always… every damn time spending has to be cut the Democrats play the teachers, police and firefighters will loose their job card? Why not cut road crews that send 14 people out to fill one little pot hole? (I’ve seen it, it’s true) Why not cut the clowns that set around all day and surf for porn? What not cut those that get busting abusing government credit cards for personal gain? Why not crack down on fraud and waste? Don’t tell me they these aren’t there I see it all the time – why not cut useless State Capitol staff that do nothing more than collect a check? Why not cut the Governors perks like private jets when they can drive what about the Governor Mansion do we really need that in these tough economic times the toughest since the great depression? Give me the damn budget and highlighter pen and you’ll see some spending cuts ASAP.

Here is another idea the other day I was at the local High School and school is out – it was well over 90 outside and I walk into the mostly empty school – a huge school were about 12 people were at and the temperature in the school was about 60 degrees – I shit you not I was freezing and one of the people there told me they had a space heater running in their office to stay warm! So I ask what does it cost in electricity to cool a 10′s of 1000′s of square foot building down about 30 degrees from the outside temperature? And it’s not just schools you go into any government building and it is ice cold in the summer and hot as hell in the winter and meanwhile all governments tell you to run a fan, open a window or put on a damn sweater and wrap up in a blanket… I’m sick of the hypocrisy! If government wants me to sweat my ass off inside in the summer and freeze it off in the winter then lead by example or shut the hell up. I keep my house about 79-80 degrees in the summer and when – like today the heat index is a 110 outside, 80 feels pretty good! As for the winter I burn wood and set the gas heat on 65-68 because unlike the government I can’t raise anyone’s taxes to pay the bill! I tell you what – I’m going to go on a one man mission if I have too – to put a end to ice cold offices in the summer and ovens in the winter… bitch to me about energy and fossil fuels will you while government is the biggest consumer and abuser in any federal, state and local levels.

So Obama no more money for you – you’ve pissed away trillions like it flows from a tap and now you want more? No, I don’t think so – cut spending, reduce the size of government and cut waste and then and only then will we talk. I’m sick of you hypocritical people.

Oh and for you Governor Steve here in the great Commonwealth of Kentucky sell a few more of those aircraft – in February the Commonwealth sold two of it’s fifteen aircraft…. FIFTEEN! Looks like we have at least twelve to go, I’d say keep one for emergencies only.

Kentucky selling two planes

Kentucky currently owns 15 aircraft: seven airplanes and eight helicopters. Most of the aircraft are small planes that are used to fly the Governor, Cabinet Secretaries, University presidents and others on official government business. The cost depends on the trip and the plane used.

Ever hear of a car? Hell get a Hybrid if you really want to set an example.

While Kentucky has 15 aircraft, across the river in Indiana, the Hoosier state has eight aircraft, while West Virginia has only five. On the higher side, Virginia has 17, Ohio 24, and Tennessee 39.

If you read the story they try to spin it that it saves the state money, claiming it only cost $125 hour to operate the plane. Now I’m not a aviation expert but I have a cousin who is and I’m going to put a call in to him because I know that a helicopter requires two hours of ground maintenance for ever one hour of fly time, not sure on planes but I’m willing to bet $125 that it cost a hell of a lot more than that to fly a aircraft for an hour if you factor fuel, pilot, co-pilot, insurance, maintenance, hanger cost, wear and tear and fees…. $125.00 my ass! You know and I know it’s BS because it cost a lot more than the price of gas to drive a car… bunch of lyin’ ass bastards.

So after all of that the way I see it is that if Obama wants more “stimulus” on top of the already wasted “stimulus” then it must mean the first “stimulus” failed like so many said it would.. which would beg the question, why give him more to waste? It’s like enabling a junkie.

OK I’m done now…

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