OBAMA GIVES PAY RAISE TO FEDERAL WORKERS, UNION COMPLAINS ARE THESE SAME GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO WERE DEEMED "NON ESSENTIAL" WORKERS? I can think of at least one person who should be deemed "non essential" to our White House... President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Friday to end a three-year freeze on federal pay scales and give federal workers a one percent pay raise. ... Union boss J. David Cox Sr., head of the American Federation of Government Employees, called Obama's pay raise "inadequate" and "pitiful" but a step in the right direction. "Although the 1 percent is a pitiful amount that doesn't begin to compensate for the furloughs and three years of frozen pay, it is a welcome development," said Cox. "To call this raise inadequate is an understatement, but it is good news all the same." The pay increase will not presently extend to blue-collar federal workers, reports the Federal Times, but negotiations are ongoing. Obama's decision to increase federal pay will be used as a bargaining chip in the looming debt ceiling and spending reduction showdown with Republicans. Obama indicated on Friday that his pay hike would extend to the military, a move designed to preempt GOP efforts to increase military pay by 1.8 percent. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/03/Obama-Gives-Pay-Raise-To-Federal-Workers-Union-Complains
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so obama is giving federal workers, the non essential ones in his eyes, a raise and promises more to come to seem like the good guy in hopes of a forgive and forget mentality when the threat comes back around in Jan. when will people realize that he is purposely trying to destroy our economy? what is progressive about spending our money like a credit card? the american people are the ones being affected here so hopefully the GOP will put the mediocre political tactics aside stand their ground and realize the lesser of two evils here. And for Cox to complain about a raise... wow. i guess that's the union for you; another cause of inflation in this country