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Pay raise: Bad
news, good news, back to bad...
Tuesday - 5/12/2015
By Mike Causey
The interesting thing about political Washington is that whatever the
issue, climate change, tsetse flies, the mating habits of wild goats or
federal pay raises, there is somebody here for it, and somebody here
against it. In fact, proposing and opposing things is what we do best,
even though that often isn't very good.
(D.C. is also full of real people, folks who — like they do in Omaha,
Houston and Seattle — do real things and have real jobs. But those of
us who argue, challenge or advocate for a living get most of the
publicity).
Just as it takes two to tango, the only way to make money — in
politics, the law, the media — is to have at least two sides. The
prosecutor and the plaintiff, Republicans and Democrats, MSNBC and Fox
News. Without the opposition the game would be over.
It's been years since anybody seriously (the operative word is
"seriously") proposed a less than laughable federal pay raise. Big
raise, in recent years, means 1 percent or maybe 1.5 percent.
While Republicans (deservedly) get most of the blame from feds (and
especially their unions), Democrats are not without sin. The White
House invented sequestration and two of the three years of a federal
pay raise came out of a White House-appointed panel. So did the idea of
using a different tool to measure inflation which, if implemented,
would dramatically (over time) reduce the size of future cost of living
adjustments.
Many members of the growing field of GOP presidential candidates have
had things to say about what they would do to improve federal
operations or reign in the bureaucracy...
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