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Originally Posted by dellinger63
Do you understand 73% of Fed employees receiving raises amounting to almost double what the President said he would save by freezing salaries makes absolutely no sense?
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Then tell the GOP, because this is 100% their idea.
What makes no sense is you taking one value, pay raises, and completely ignoring the rest of the payroll budget. Those are not the only two values contributing to the payroll. The payroll isn't only A- pay raises, and B -COLA freezes.
You do realize that there's a huge "rest of the payroll budget" to consider? For example, what would the normal value of the frozen COLA raises be, that are now 1.3 billion less over two years? The article didn't even consider that.
If you are decreasing a budget by 1.3 billion, pulling out one line item out of that budget that has a greater value, and saying, "Oh, but it's still over 1.3 billion" is just silly.
If your budget is $2000 a month, and your mortage is $1000, and your taxes, insurance, utilities are $500 - if you announce a budget cut of $100 a month in your "taxes, insurance, utilities" category - pulling out a tax bill that is still $300 and making the claim that "Oh, you didn't cut $100, because this is still $300!" doesn't make sense.