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BumRushDaShow

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33. What a fucking fucker

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Fri Sep 1, 2017, 07:51 AM

Sep 2017

Feds (including myself until this year) had 3 years WITHOUT any increase due to the Great Recession... and a couple more years of measly increases (generally 1% + fractions of a % for locality pay) after that. The Pay Comparability Act keeps getting shoved aside as fake "economic emergencies" get touted as the reason.

Because of Harvey, the federal civil servants will be working for years to deal with this catastrophe across many agencies not being mentioned in the news and he just told them fuck you.

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Trump to cut pay raises for government workers [View all] TomCADem Aug 2017 OP

There goes that 'winning' again SummerSnow Aug 2017 #1

"national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare" Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #2

He wants to build his f'ing vanity wall by stiffing civil servants. Tanuki Aug 2017 #10

I wonder if the plan is to put Trump Motels every 100 miles along the wall?? Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #13

I thought the same thing. BadgerMom Sep 2017 #29

He probably thinks Hurricane Harve gives him a green light to do this. Chemisse Sep 2017 #32

Deconstruction of the administrative state proceeding as planned Freethinker65 Aug 2017 #3

Deconstruction of government and society, you mean sharedvalues Aug 2017 #16

Another dumb ass move he didn't have to make. mobeau69 Aug 2017 #4

You won't like Charles Blow's oped today sharedvalues Aug 2017 #17

This should be an OP, if it isn't already. longship Sep 2017 #31

This is the thanks civil servants get for helping in Texas SHRED Aug 2017 #5

No surprise. elleng Aug 2017 #6

It's destroying the federal pay scale and decreasing effectiveness of our government. sharedvalues Aug 2017 #18

That is more than teachers in San Diego got for 5 straight years. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #23

In fairness, he's NOT ordering a "pay cut", he's limiting a pay increase brooklynite Aug 2017 #7

Nothing is "fair"... SergeStorms Aug 2017 #9

Unless you propose to be a bad as he is, I'll have to expect a higher level of accuracy. brooklynite Aug 2017 #11

If the pay raise was a COLA (cost of living adjustment), Tanuki Aug 2017 #14

Not in real dollars. In nominal dollars. sharedvalues Aug 2017 #19

That sounds like Republican talk SHRED Aug 2017 #20

Exactly. If I tell you I will pay you $5000 and I give you $4000, that is not a "cut". R U kidding? Midnight Writer Sep 2017 #24

He ordered a pay cut Major Nikon Sep 2017 #27

Just when I think...... SergeStorms Aug 2017 #8

Well crap!! There goes my trip to the Maldives benld74 Aug 2017 #12

Well,Trump is offering free trips to Death Valley Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #15

Trump,Trump,Trump!!!!! Grassy Knoll Aug 2017 #21

What a fucking asshole PatSeg Sep 2017 #22

Isn't he bragging about all the jobs he is creating? keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #25

If the Repugs treated their own bank accounts C Moon Sep 2017 #26

This from the guy who is on track to spend more taxpayer dollars on weekend vacations/golf in one jalan48 Sep 2017 #28

He's got walls and tax cuts for the rich to fund JDC Sep 2017 #30

What a fucking fucker BumRushDaShow Sep 2017 #33

The latest outrage. Hugin Sep 2017 #34

Writer must be new to covering federal pay issues jxla Sep 2017 #35

There is a national emergency but Trump will do nothing about it jmowreader Sep 2017 #36

Again,looking under couch cushions for ANYTHING to cut Bengus81 Sep 2017 #37