Federal employees COLA slashed

[Dill]

(02-13-2020, 02:44 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I don't see what the uproar is about.  Those same Federal employees that make their salary off of our taxes, are more than welcome to go get jobs in the private sector.  In the private sector, performance merits raises in pay more than things like "achieving another year of seniority".

We could save A LOT on taxes if we just fired ALL the Federal employees. The deficit would drop dramatically.

Start with Congress, then Cabinet level positions and staff, then go to the FBI, Coast Guard and Military.  

We've got 28,000 soldiers in S Korea doing what? Then there is a whole carrier group in the Far East and two in the Persian Gulf. That's another 150,000 who aren't making anything for the economy. LOL talk about achieving seniority just by being there: I know a command sergeant major who was deployed 9 times to Iraq and A-stan. Some of these guys get medals for "good conduct" and just being where there are. Let's cut the overseas vacations on our dime and let these guys find out how easy it is to provide their own health care in the civilian economy. If we need embassies and troops overseas, let private corporations take care of it WITHOUT our tax dollars.  Somehow.  If these kinds of jobs don't create profit, then why is anyone doing them?

Also, we wouldn't need all this Social Security and Medicare if our taxes went down 90%.