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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (115923)	12/2/2011 12:27:12 PM
From: TideGlider	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

You have poor memory. The total number on the federal government payroll has certainly increased under Obama -- about 144,000 from January 2009 through January 2011. But the bigger issue is that these employees, whether they work outside or within Washington, D.C., tend to benefit from higher salaries than their counterparts and salaries that increase proportionately more than comparable private-sector positions. In addition, with pay freezes or limited salary increases across many companies, the wage gap between the haves and have-nots -- that is, between the federal employee and the private-sector employee -- has widened over the past few years. This is an alarming trend, and it could be detrimental to the United States in the coming years. americanthinker.com