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To: TimF who wrote (321010)	8/24/2009 5:47:20 PM
From: KLP	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793964

Obama is having a hissy fit about health care because of all the Government workers and their salary and benefits, but of course, he doesn't think we are smart enough to catch on.. Cripes, just in Czars alone, look at the salary and benefits he has undertaken, all by himself. Oh yeah....guess no one can know those numbers....the Senate is supposed to, but Obama has put them all under WH control. And zip, zero, nada from our media....

To: TimF who wrote (321010)	8/25/2009 12:12:46 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

I think that chart is very misleading, based on my personal experience. Executives in my agency would have been paid double or triple what they got for the same level of responsibility in private industry. The only time I came close to the 2000 figure shown on that chart for feds was including a 25% Cost of Living differential, without which the government would have had great difficulty recruiting for Alaska. It was a hard pill to swallow, but the COLA does not accrue to your retirement benefits whereas locality pay does. As a consequence of that, I have the lowest pension for my grade of anybody in the federal service.