Hmm, cut troops to increase feral workers' pay.

We are so boned, it's pathetic.

Oh, and have I mentioned lately that Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure?

I've haven't had a raise in 2 years and I work for a county government. What a dick.

I was funemployed for three years and am now working a part-time job making about one-fifth of what I was making four years ago.

Soooo, no, I'm not better off than I was four years ago.

Just in case anyone asks.

Oh, and if it's not been said... federal employees aren't working with no pay raises for 2 years.  Feds use a grade/step system.  So if your job is whatever GS level you are, within that GS level there are steps.  Basically, every year you go up one step, regardless of anything else.  You can certainly max out your step, but chances are if you know how to game the system, you find a way to move up to the next GS level by that point.  So everybody gets raises!

Oh, and then there's locality pay.....

Government workers help us. There should be more of them.

Government workers help us. There should be more of them.

Government workers help us. There should be more of them.

Government workers help us. There should be more of them.

As they said during the California budget crisis -What do you call 200,000 layed-off state workers?  A good start.

Trim the civilian federal work force by at least twenty percent overall and delete several entire departments (you know which ones) entirely.

Unfortunatly I believe it was Talleyrand who told another as they observed from a balcony overlooking  a mass of bureaucrats working in a huge office, "You and I shall pass, but das bureaus? Das bureaus are eternal."

Oh, and if it's not been said... federal employees aren't working with no pay raises for 2 years. 

Not the retired ones.

Rush just brought up an interesting point: this administration absolutely will fight to the death any attempt to cut back on police and firemen, but is more than happy to lay off troops.

He asks, "what is the difference between the two? They're both  first responders.''

The untold story of the Obama Administration’s widely reported, $335 million discrimination settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation is that, under a secret Justice Department program, a chunk of the money won’t go to the “victims” but rather leftist groups not connected to the lawsuit.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will determine which “qualified organizations” get leftover settlement cash and Democrat-tied groups like the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the open-borders National Council of La Raza (NCLR) stand to get large sums based on the hastily arranged deal which got court approval in just a few days. 

14 As still shots of Obama in his bathing suit appeared on screen, (NBC's Brian) Williams announced: "The photos that come out today may make it tougher for men of a certain age who go to the beach for summer vacation this year because a lot of guys are now going to be expected to dive for every football that comes remotely close to them. This is the 50-year-old President of the United States on New Year's Day in what appears to be a hardcore beach football game."

... Today co-host Matt Lauer declared: "And fit to serve, Barack Obama photographed shirtless in Hawaii and a lot of women are giving him the presidential seal of approval."

Good thing the newsreaders are sitting behind a desk. Just sayin'.

Rush just brought up an interesting point: this administration absolutely will fight to the death any attempt to cut back on police and firemen, but is more than happy to lay off troops.

Since when does the Federal government hire police- and firemen?

You know, somebody should call him out on his profligate spending and operating without a budget.

Oh, wait, my Senator just did.

Posted by: Barry at January 06, 2012 12:44 PM (hXJOG)

We worship you, oh Prince of Djakarta! Give us the word and we'll start regulating sweat as a pollutant!

Since when does the Federal government hire police- and firemen?

When $787B was spent on the Porkulus Bill, that was a big selling point.

43......... Today co-host Matt Lauer declared: "And fit to serve, Barack Obama photographed shirtless in Hawaii and a lot of women are giving him the presidential seal of approval."

If Newt is the nominee....can you imagine how they will obsess over his corpulence and white hair?

The media cameras will be zooming in on his straining jacket buttons, while saying "Oh no! That one is going to pop!" .....And they will be asking "Why do we never see Newt jogging or playing golf?"

57 ... Today co-host Matt Lauer declared: "And fit to serve, Barack Obama photographed shirtless in Hawaii and a lot of women JournoLists in the closet are giving him the presidential seal of approval."

Also, dumbass Lauer, it's the fucking President who would confer the Presidential seal of approval. Women could only confer the women's seal of approval.

English. Learn it.

Hardcole footbarr game? How many hole-in-one he get? I get seven in one lound!

"...what appears to be a hardcore beach football game."

Tell me that there was some beer pong too.

Crap, who was it who blew his knee out playing beach football prior to the Pro Bowl a few years ago? 

in what appears to be a hardcore beach football game.

What bullshit. Now hacky-sack, that I might believe.

"....hardcore beach football game"

Unless they were playing in thongs, with topless girls......it's not very hardcore.

Rubio could've have announced, slept till November and woke up Pres of US

No kidding. He's pretty adamant about staying in the Senate for now. As long as he can be a burr under the SCOAMF's saddle, more power to him.

Maybe, if Shrillary decides to get in the race (which isn't all that farfetched, she's as power-hungry as her hubby, and as big an Alinskyite as The Vapid One), who knows?

Barack Hussein Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

I do not denounce myself.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2012 12:47 PM (tqwMN)

Have a link?

"...what appears to be an Indonesian learning to play football."

Posted by: joncelli at January 06, 2012 12:23 PM (RD7QR)

FIFY

Oh, and if it's not been said... federal employees aren't working with no pay raises for 2 years.  Feds use a grade/step system.  So if your job is whatever GS level you are, within that GS level there are steps.  Basically, every year you go up one step, regardless of anything else.  You can certainly max out your step, but chances are if you know how to game the system, you find a way to move up to the next GS level by that point.  So everybody gets raises!

Oh, and then there's locality pay.....

Posted by: Burt TC at January 06, 2012 12:41 PM (TOk1P)

Not if you've gone SES and topped out in your 40s. The only raise you get then EVER is the little bumps for cost of living and the occassional award.

Barack Hussein Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

I have to say.....that I like this version even better than 'miserable failure'. .....Because he has actually been succeeding in fucking up the country.

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May I also offer this version, for the consideration of the esteemed Moron Horde:

Barack Hussein Obama is a Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Predator.

......or SCoaMP, for short.....which is easier to say.

Private sector:  Give raises in order to keep and attract qualified workers

Public sector:  Give raises because why not, its not like its coming out of your pocket

86......All I heard was "I can't wait for November." Just a little nugget from the unwashed but there it is. People are NOT happy and don't buy the shit they are shoveling to the masses.

We will have to work harder.

Williams praised the Obama family: "...like a retro almost 1950s American family, that there's a – kind of a wholesomeness about them. They play board games, they play on the floor of the living room with the dog, they're not – the girls aren't allowed a lot of TV and social media."

All said doubtless without the sneer that would accompany the same comments about a Republican President for whom that were true.

Then it would be all about how old-fashioned, rigid, and out of touch he was.

Posted by: The Moderator at January 06, 2012 01:18 PM (RD7QR)

Mr. Moderator, as you well know, being a sodomite goes against my core religious beliefs.  I find the question both fatuous and insulting.  Nevertheless, in response to your question, I'd be a lesbian, of course.

Barry = Ozzie + The Fonz!

The Obama family is just like us, substitute the MIL for Alice and Reggie Love/boytoy of the moment for Sam the Butcher.  They take family vacations in Hawaii, surf, play beach football, see Don Ho's show, the works!

It's groovy!!

128 Mr. Obama, this question is from Facebook and is directed specifically at you: "If you were a sodomite, what kind of sodomite would you be?"

Presidential.

Oops, did I say that out loud?

Wait.....I thought "wholesomeness" is something that is bad, because it is a making a judgement, and liberals tell us we should not be judemental.

I guess "wholesomeness" is okay if the liberal media tell us what is wholesome.

Mr. Moderator, as you well know, being a sodomite goes against my core religious beliefs.  I find the question both fatuous and insulting.  Nevertheless, in response to your question, I'd be a lesbian, of course.

Posted by: Rick Santorum at January 06, 2012 01:20 PM (DrWcr)

Aren't we all deep down inside - lesbians. Gay men love the dress women in fancy clothes, straight men love to stare at their boobies, straight women dress for other women, and lesbians, well you know....

Oh, and if it's not been said... federal employees aren't working with no pay raises for 2 years. Feds use a grade/step system. So if your job is whatever GS level you are, within that GS level there are steps. Basically, every year you go up one step, regardless of anything else. You can certainly max out your step, but chances are if you know how to game the system, you find a way to move up to the next GS level by that point. So everybody gets raises!

Oh, and then there's locality pay.....

Posted by: Burt TC at January 06, 2012 12:41 PM (TOk1P)

It's not every year.  There are 10 steps and step 1-4 occur yearly.  After that they occur in 2-3 year increments, 5 through 7 happen every two years and and 8 through 10 happen every three years.  To go from step 1 through step 10 requires 18 good years in service at that grade.  Just want to make sure the facts are out there.

Posted by: mpfs at January 06, 2012 01:06 PM (iYbLN)

On Monday the wife and went for a ride on the Harley (with 2 US flags waving from the top of the tour pak).  When we stopped at a beachside park, a gentleman looking like Santa Claus came running up and said he really likes it when people show the flag.  He told us he was from Maine and lives on a boat.  Then he asked; "Are you a progressive or a traditionalist?".  Given how he lives, thought he might have been a progressive, but he is a diehard "traditionalist" and really hates where the US is headed.  If Obama gets another term he's off to Latin America.

It's not every year.  There are 10 steps and step 1-4 occur yearly.  After that they occur in 2-3 year increments, 5 through 7 happen every two years and and 8 through 10 happen every three years.  To go from step 1 through step 10 requires 18 good years in service at that grade.  Just want to make sure the facts are out there.

Posted by: Johnnyreb at January 06, 2012 01:25 PM (NNrYJ)

I was told there would be no math on this blog.

Since when does the Federal government hire police- and firemen?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 06, 2012 12:48 PM (3Z0DS)

On nearly every single military base in the country. 

On Monday the wife and went for a ride on the Harley (with 2 US flags waving from the top of the tour pak).  When we stopped at a beachside park, a gentleman looking like Santa Claus came running up and said he really likes it when people show the flag.  He told us he was from Maine and lives on a boat.  Then he asked; "Are you a progressive or a traditionalist?".  Given how he lives, thought he might have been a progressive, but he is a diehard "traditionalist" and really hates where the US is headed.  If Obama gets another term he's off to Latin America.

#143  Understand completely.  Grew up in Northern California (timber country, not wine country) and life was outstanding up there.  After the Spotted Owl fiasco, it's unemployment central.  Lots of relatives still in California and between the high taxes and outrageous heating and cooling costs would love to leave.  Unfortunately, most, if not all are stuck there.

Wish you the very best in your quest to leave the Commie Republic of California.  Sounds like you have a plan!

Oh, and if it's not been said... federal employees aren't working with no pay raises for 2 years. Feds use a grade/step system. So if your job is whatever GS level you are, within that GS level there are steps. Basically, every year you go up one step, regardless of anything else. You can certainly max out your step, but chances are if you know how to game the system, you find a way to move up to the next GS level by that point. So everybody gets raises!

Oh, and then there's locality pay.....

Posted by: Burt TC at January 06, 2012 12:41 PM (TOk1P)

It's not every year.  There are 10 steps and step 1-4 occur yearly.  After that they occur in 2-3 year increments, 5 through 7 happen every two years and and 8 through 10 happen every three years.  To go from step 1 through step 10 requires 18 good years in service at that grade.  Just want to make sure the facts are out there.

Posted by: Johnnyreb at January 06, 2012 01:25 PM (NNrYJ)

Thanks for the clarification.  Obviously I shouldn't have said everybody. 

Sorry, G-Man, I can't get too worked up about it.

Within-grade increases average about 3 percent of an employeeÂ’s pay. They are eligible for them after one, two or three years at their current step, depending on their level.

So you're still getting 1-3% every year even with a "salary freeze."

I took a real salary freeze, got all future pension bennies eliminated, and my 401k chopped.

The private sector still lags far behind the public sector in pay and bennies.