Anonymous wrote:Feds workers, other than highly accomplished scientists, engineers, or other researchers who are dedicated and give up much higher career advancements in industry for public service are PARASITES imho. No...I’m not envious, or have any hatred towards most Feds. Just realistic. I own my small commercial construction business and doing just fine. Most of the Feds I know are lazy ass$$, whine too much, hanging out just to pick up the paycheck, entitled attitude, and not in touch with reality. Most even admit and brag about it as much!! They should be laid off or at a minimum furloughed!!!

Anonymous wrote:Feds workers, other than highly accomplished scientists, engineers, or other researchers who are dedicated and give up much higher career advancements in industry for public service are PARASITES imho. No...I’m not envious, or have any hatred towards most Feds. Just realistic. I own my small commercial construction business and doing just fine. Most of the Feds I know are lazy ass$$, whine too much, hanging out just to pick up the paycheck, entitled attitude, and not in touch with reality. Most even admit and brag about it as much!! They should be laid off or at a minimum furloughed!!!

Anonymous wrote:We're already underpaid in an expensive area. We work like crazy.

Sounds like you're just anti-feds. We're not equivalent to Congress, you know. Sometimes I think people project their hatred of Congress onto the federal workforce as a whole.

Anonymous wrote:Feds workers, other than highly accomplished scientists, engineers, or other researchers who are dedicated and give up much higher career advancements in industry for public service are PARASITES imho. No...I’m not envious, or have any hatred towards most Feds. Just realistic. I own my small commercial construction business and doing just fine. Most of the Feds I know are lazy ass$$, whine too much, hanging out just to pick up the paycheck, entitled attitude, and not in touch with reality. Most even admit and brag about it as much!! They should be laid off or at a minimum furloughed!!!

Anonymous wrote:My husband works for a tech company. Not only did he not receive a cut, the company gave everyone a small bonus. Not sure where OP got the impression that "everyone" is taking a pay cut.

Not that some aren't suffering. We're helping to support family, non-profits, our teachers, and local businesses. We see the pain and are helping as we can.

But it would be seriously foolish to do anything to lower consumption right now. Cutting the pay of public employees - which would absolutely impact US consumption - would push us further into recession/depression.

OP, you could not be stupider.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband left the federal government 6 months ago and now makes nearly 300k more than he did in his govie job. You want to cut govie pay further? Okay.

Yes, if the federal government lowers pay, my DH will finally relent and apply to one of those jobs recruiting firms send him every week. He could at least double his fed salary.

Doubt it.

Anonymous wrote:cut the defense budget, stop giving tax cuts to the wealthy- let's start there.

Anonymous wrote: Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

Anonymous wrote:I have a feeling OP thought she’d rile up some fed employee hate, but instead she’s the one that got ripped on.

That really backfired.

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Anonymous wrote:People at FDA are working very hard, for many hours a day, directly on COVID 19 and you want to cut their pay for no good reason? That seems short sighted.

I'm not involved in health, but the industry I regulate is taking a beating and there is a lot to do. I'd imagine it's similar at many like USDA, Treasury, IRS, State (lots of Americans being repatriated and trapped overseas, plus their own FSOs), Small Business Administration, etc. The federal government is putting up a massive front right now and feds are working to make it happen.

I have a friend at IRS that has worked 18 hour days for weeks getting stimulus checks out.

Anonymous wrote:Why would OP want to cut the pay of people “just because”? Keep in mind that when there have been government shutdowns the local economy has been hurt because the federal employees were not spending money at local businesses.