Comments on: It's A Good Time To Work For Uncle Sam

[NotFondOfLibs]

Leave it to the obama administration to stack the deck to insure his re-election. What these people do to earn a salary of $75,000 should be of great concern.

[bhooks2]

lilycat31

I hate to confuse things with facts but, according to the online statistics, the four BIGGEST welfare states are; DC, New York, California and Rhode Island.

Now what was your argument again??

[gnetumn]

Obama is stupid. So stupid that I think that the average conversation about Obama should begin with the sentence "Obama is stupid." This would help us begin to extricate him from office.

[larrycowan]

Mtgin, I am a small business owner, and have indeed seen my taxes go down under Obama. Of course, it is a result of declining revenue and increased expenses, but heck, no one said how our taxes were going to go down!

As an aside, I am sick and tired of hearing how the current administration inherited a bad economy. We don't want excuses - blaming others for problems is not a solution.

Further, I'd like to know how sucking up all the available private capital, current and future, to pay for this huge government expansion/spending will lead to a healthy economy in the future. Transfering money and capital from the productive to the unproductive is not an economic solution - it is a recipe for disaster. With the proposed increases in capital gains taxes, personal & corporate income taxes, and the continued demonization of those that are productive, where is the incentive to invest and grow?

[tuftskins]

$75,000 to shuffle papers. Great.

We the People need to give our money to local tax authorities, so it can be well spent, and allow this failed experiment in Washington DC to die a lonely death.

[mtgin]

Would anyone here who thinks Obama cut small business taxes and explain to me how? Are you a small business owner and you can show examples how he cut taxes? It's easy to say he cut taxes when you are preaching the talking points but give me real world numbers and show me where and how it made a difference in your business. If you don't own a small business or know exactly how the tax cuts benefit (meaning where?) a small business then be quiet.

[lilycat31]

The BIGGEST welfare states, are all "red states": Alaska, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, etc, etc.

Seems to me that the conservatives are the ones that make a career out of welfare.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservatives were probably the only ones who vote in those states.....at least until this past election. Those "new" voters who'll probably never bother to vote again are the lazy slugs on welfare. Of course if Obama runs again, and he will, they may turn out again to see if they can get more freebies.

As for the increase in government hiring, it's symtomatic of the current administration's complete disconnect with reality. The reality is that we are running out of people to fund this out of control monstrosity our government has become. But don't try to confuse them with reason.

[DZib]

Everything this administration does is designed to secure votes for the Dems. The country as a whole is not even a remote consideration.

We're toast.

[DanManzi]

It is sinister for this administration, or any administration to fatten the ranks of the federal bureaucracies at any time, worst of all now. First year Public Administration grad students will tell you that once a bureau is formed and fattened, its only mission from then on is self-preservation. I read about it here: www.theconservativegentleman.com, and I listen to his podcasts which are right on the money.

[declanm-2009]

gaelgirll: If you think "federal employees are paid a fraction of what their private sector counterparts make," I think you may wish to reread my article. Counting benefits it's $75,000 a year, while I recall the average private sector wage with benefits is closer to $45,000-$50,000 a year.

jgg00000008: You write: "federal employees are paid a fraction of what their private sector counterparts make." That's true if you compare their salaries to the relatively small number of partners at the largest law firms. But if you compare their salaries to solo practitioners, there's not much of a difference. (Figuring out which one has shorter hours and better job guarantees is left as an exercise for the reader.)

hungry1968-15: How exactly has the president "already cut taxes for small and medium businesses?"

[BlaBlaObama]

Bla Bla Obama will hire every living person in the United States if they will vote for him and his Bla Bla Obama operatives in Congress.

http://www.BlaBlaObama.com

[hangingloose]

Fed workers make out better than those in private industry. I've worked both. Granted, attorneys and physicians do not but the average worker in federal service indeed does make more in $ and benefits. Private industry doesn't do COLAs or automatic raises. Federal employees move up in step every or every other year, depending what grade they're in.

Go look at the tables OPM publishes. Damn good money and lots of perks - and most are lifetime jobs with little chance of getting booted unless guilty of misconduct.. Very few are feeling the econ crunch the rest of us are feeling.

[apolloknowsa]

Obama already cut taxes on small biz? Really? When? Raising the national debt by several trillion raised all of our debt liability...

I guess that you mean that small businesses are --paying-- less taxes. True, they are--because they are making less money, hiring fewer people and going OUT of business thanks to this administration's castigation of free enterprise.

Welcome to state-run fascism--King Hussein style!

[liberalssuc2]

EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know....

Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday. You
may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by
on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.

Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the
USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines...

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of
$20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza.

The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed
on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a
free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have
displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions
since his inauguration:

His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.

His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was
with Al Arabia television.

His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here
within the U. S., but within the world, using U. S. tax payer funds.

He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees
halted.

He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.

He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the
"terror attack" on 9/11.

Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding
bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.

Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

[jdintexas]

So much hate and mud slinging. I am a conservative and a Christian and yes I voted for Bush. Bush was a social conservative but very much a liberal on physical issues. During the eight years he was in office the size of government grew dramatically. Bush's physical policies were much like his fathers. Yes, tax cuts have worked in the past and generally always grow tax revenues. The problem is our federal government seems incapable of cutting spending. Why do we think that the federal government knows best or please tell me what has the federal government ever run that has been efficient or successful. We were established as a group of states with different ideas and life styles, we were never meant to all be alike. New York does not want to be California and so on.
States should determine most of their own issues with the Federal government providing security, international trade laws, intrastate trade laws, foreign affairs and a minimal of other services. Anyway if you want to fear something fear the incredible size of our government and the ever-increasing intrusion into our lives. Also consider that no government in history has ever been able to spend its way out of debt. The increase in the amount of money being printed by our government coupled with the federal governments huge involvement in the U.S. Treasury and Agency Mortgage backed markets is staggering. You very well may be spending $100 for a gallon of milk.

[LizRoss]

?Government jobs? do not make a profit. They never have. They never will. Governments take profits from individuals and the private sector to pay for things that we often would and could not afford . The saddest part is the private sector has no say as to what the money is allocated for and there is no accountability for the results.

The politically elite gets to decide what is best for us. Often it is just to create another government job. And so it goes. . .

[just-a-joe]

Soooo... Unemployment is high, so the federal government shouldn't hire anyone. This only makes sense if every spublic sector position left unfilled necessarily resulted in one or more private sector jobs being filled.

Annnnd... with the average federal government wage lagging 18.4% behind the private sector (as of 2006), and after CPI inflation of 3.8% in 2008, federal employees should not get a pay raise (of 3.6%) from 2008 to 2010. This would make sense if underpaying public sector employees meant a necessary increase in the wages of private sector employees, and if lower wages were a good way to attract tallented and motivated public sector workers.

Ohhhh...my comments are way off the mark. For a moment there, I thought "It's a Good Time to Work for Uncle Sam" was an opinion about the economics of public-sector employment in a time of recession. It is--for lack of a better word--a tantrum.

As for most of the comments to "It's a Good Time...", well, I can't honestly say I they seem to have read it.

[Trust_me_]

Obama is the leader for a reason!!
Posted by evilbush

Yeah its called moveon and acorn.
and a little help from the MSN.

[Trust_me_]

i work for the federal government as an attorney

This usually means he had trouble passing the Bar.

cant get a public gig huh, sorry your stuck just leaching off the rest of us>

[Trust_me_]

Why not, 93 percent of all Cubans work for the Gov.

And they are socialist and if asked on camera will tell you how much they love Castro.