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This is so typical. (emphasis mine)
President Obama’s call last year for “shared sacrifice” doesn’t extend to federal employees, at least based on the details of his administration’s 2010 budget released this week.
At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge.
Executive branch employment – 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department – is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.
There’s little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.
But don’t worry, the administration has justified all of this increased spending, of course. The rest of us can enjoy our Ramen Noodles.
[...] he needs to heed his own advice, and impress upon our spend-drunk Congress the meaning of sacrifice and [...]
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