Steal it while the stealins good!! Obama issues order implementing 2010 pay raise

[sportycliff]

Life is good in the public sector! Military are THE ONLY ONES who deserve this!! Unemployment @ 15-17% and this is his answer??!!!!!!
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1209...ref=todaysnews

Obama issues order implementing 2010 pay raise
By Kellie Lunneyklunney@govexec.comDecember 23, 2009
President Obama on Wednesday evening issued an executive order implementing a 2.0 pay raise for federal employees and a 3.4 percent pay raise for service members in 2010.
The executive order reflects the pay rates included in the fiscal 2010 omnibus spending package and Defense Appropriations Act approved this month by Congress and signed into law by the president. Congressional appropriators honored Obama's request for a 2.0 percent increase in pay for civilian employees in the omnibus. Obama proposed in November that the entire raise go to base pay. But lawmakers instead devoted 1.5 percent of the raise to base pay and 0.5 percent of it to locality pay, a move federal employee advocates had recommended.
The military pay raise, included in the fiscal 2010 Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 3326), was 0.5 percent higher than the 2.9 percent raise Obama requested in his initial budget proposal.
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For General Schedule employees, base pay will range from $17,803 for employees in Grade 1, Step 1, to $129,517 for employees in Grade 15, Step 10. For employees in the Senior Executive Service, pay will range from $119,554 to $179,700 for executives in agencies with certified SES performance appraisal systems, and from $119,554 to $165,300 in agencies without such systems.
The locality pay rates for 2010 are listed by region in Schedule 9 of an attachment to the executive order. Employees located in the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia-West Virginia-Pennsylvania region will receive a 1.12 percent bump from 2009, from 23.10 percent to 24.22 percent in 2010.
The pay raise takes effect on Jan. 1, 2010, or on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after Jan. 1.

[Zappa]

This is my surprised face

[Woodstock]

Cost of living increase for Social Security recipients: $0

[vandals81]

See, I brought this same topic up recently on here and I had several public sector employees attack me because they are doing the public a service and only making 20k a year wah wah wah....The bottom line is how do you deserve a 3.4% raise when all of us are paying more in taxes, getting no raises, and are just plain ol' luck to have a job while you rape us? MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Lucas McCain]

I could comment on this but Derek would ban me.

[mikem317]

The people that deserve that money are the people getting ripped off; the American taxpayers.

[freedom2012]

If he lays off the hundreds of thousands of "non essential " government workers, I'll go along with this.

[billmelater]

I had several public sector employees attack me because they are doing the public a service

Are you shitting me? I know of no one NO ONE who got a government job to "serve the people." They got themselves on the payroll any way they could for THEIR paycheck and THEIR benefits and THEIR pension. And they brag about it. I am so tired of hearing "we're providing a necessary service"..."the poor will suffer without this tiny tax increase"..."we'll have to cut vital services to the needy"...and on and on.
To me, all of that sounds like "Hey, you old farts depending on SS...I got mine, where's yours?"

[drgrant]

This is news?

Everyone in the fedgov (or quasi fed agencies, too) gets this pay increase every year.

Obama is an ass, for sure, but the hyperbole surrounding this is funny. Bush and every other president has signed in an increase, every year. The only thing that changes is the amount. Actually, I think this time around it is a little LOWER than it usually is.

-Mike

[MassBites]

Only the military deserve a pay raise.