You're the President

[ProSense]

Poll question: You're the President

Executive branch and Congressional wages are already frozen. What's the fair solution for federal employees.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. reduce salaries of chief executives earning lots of money

don't freeze the ordinary fed workers' pay

[ProSense]

5. Some attempt at that was already made

Wall Street reform gives regulators power over executive pay

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. As Dems we need to show the workers that we support them

the high earners should show responsibility by taking a wage freeze. Our lower paid workers should not.

[katandmoon]

2. Unrec. That didn't take long.

Obama long since lost this retired Fed's vote. I guarantee he just kissed the 2012 electoral votes from VA goodbye.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. neither did unrec whining...

only 6 minutes.

[jefferson_dem]

3. A wage freeze is totally fair, given our economic condition.

Mine has been frozen for two years. Why should federal employees be beyond sacrifice?

[katandmoon]

7. So instead of protesting when others get screwed over as you have been, you cheer for more pain for

everyone.

Nice.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Obviously, none of the above

Stop the attacks on working Americans.

[angee_is_mad]

6. Since I'm not a donor

and refuse to donate to DU at this time, I can't vote because of the freaking pop ups! But I don't have a problem with freezing fed salaries.
In NC state employees are going into the 2nd year of salary freeze. You learn to make do with less, because shit is pretty much Fu&k up everywhere. At least I don't live in California.

[ZombieHorde]

8. I don't know, but I recommended this poll because it is thought provoking. nt

[bemildred]

9. Other: hire more, both state and federal and raises all around. nt

[boppers]

10. Other: pay cuts

Their wage increases have been greatly exceeding inflation.

[woo me with science]

11. Give their raise to fixed income SS recipients who have been waiting too long. nt

[nyc 4 Biden]

13. unrec.

all those options reduce wages for working americans. not smart in a recession.

[ProSense]

14. "all those options reduce wages for working americans. not smart in a recession" Really?

"Other" reduces wages? How?

[ShadowLiberal]

15. Hiring freezes don't work, government agencies hire 'contractors' to get around it

My brother used to date someone who worked for the government. She was hired as a 'contractor' for an agency that does research on DNA for medical purposes, even though at the time the agency was supposed to be under a 3 year hiring freeze. As a contractor she didn't get as many employee benefits, since they legally weren't allowed to give some of them to a contractor.

Oh and just for a bit of perspective, this agency needed to hire more people because Senator Specter secured over $40 million dollars for them in the stimulus bill. Oh and don't think that the money was wasted with projects thought up just to spend the money, the agency always has a list of projects they consider worth doing in the future if they get the funding for it.

[XemaSab]

16. There's a big difference between freezing the wages of someone

making $15 an hour and someone making $200,000 a year.

[Onlooker]

17. Obama shouldn't attack the middle class

Federal workers are middle class and we should not look to their salaries to address the budget. If they need to tighten up, then offer retirement packages and reduce the size of the work force. Of course, there are probably a handful of federal workers who found ways to play the system, and where that's the case, they should close the loopholes.

We should raise taxes on the wealthy, and continue to promote jobs and fair wages for working people.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Decrease spending

by getting the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq. (and, according to WikiLeaks, Pakistan).

:hi:

[Union Scribe]

19. Funny how those in government forget the money and blood vacuums these wars are

[SidDithers]

21. The first thing I do is destroy Xmas...nt

Sid

[LawnLover]

22. Getting someone other than me to be President. nt.