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<blockquote data-quote="Droff" data-source="post: 2044946" data-attributes="member: 26615">Nice rational discussion on this topic, I&#039;m surprised, but then again I&#039;m new around here.This has gotten the typical spin due to congress being included and as a few have stated, provides very bad optics to the public.&nbsp; .5% isn&#039;t much, but I&#039;m not going to turn it down since I&#039;ve been under a pay freeze for a few years now, while costs of everything needed to live on has contiinued to increase.What doesn&#039;t help are statements like these;&quot;It&#039;s not how hard they [federal employees] work, it&#039;s what can the American people afford,&quot; said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA). He also added, &quot;Currently, federal workers receive typically over $100,000, and are about 16 percent higher compensated than their private-sector counterparts.&quot;What a jack*ss.&nbsp; Typically over $100K?&nbsp; Not even close.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Droff, post: 2044946, member: 26615"] Nice rational discussion on this topic, I'm surprised, but then again I'm new around here. This has gotten the typical spin due to congress being included and as a few have stated, provides very bad optics to the public. .5% isn't much, but I'm not going to turn it down since I've been under a pay freeze for a few years now, while costs of everything needed to live on has contiinued to increase. What doesn't help are statements like these; "It's not how hard they [federal employees] work, it's what can the American people afford," said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA). He also added, "Currently, federal workers receive typically over $100,000, and are about 16 percent higher compensated than their private-sector counterparts." What a jack*ss. Typically over $100K? Not even close. [/QUOTE]

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