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Last night, I came across a statistic that there are 330,000 Federal employees who make over $100,000 a year.

Wow.

Another great example of our government at work............taking care of itself.

Originally Posted by robot

Last night, I came across a statistic that there are 330,000 Federal employees who make over $100,000 a year.

Wow.

Robot,
You want another scary statistic? A few years back I was doing a project in Maricopa County, AZ and the numbers quoted were that 38% of the people in the county were employed by some form of the government, either Federal, State, County or City. I had never run into quite so many layers of government approvals and reviews to get work done. AZ is SOCAL East!

Maricopa County is little LA....same look, same feel but with cheaper license plates

Federal workers owe more than $3B in back taxes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/...ederal_workers

Originally Posted by robot

Maricopa County is little LA....same look, same feel but with cheaper license plates

And I think you have a sheriff that our government needs,to show us how to have prisons set up as prisons,and not holiday camps...

Originally Posted by robot

Last night, I came across a statistic that there are 330,000 Federal employees who make over $100,000 a year.

Wow.

I thought I would edit because I dont want to sound crass. That figure is surprising, but there is somewhere around 1.8 MILLION who dont (earn over $100k)... if you were to compare top professional and executive pay in most federal agencies to their civilian counterparts, it would be pale in comparison. The federal work force has pay caps...the civilian work force does not.

The bad wrap the feds contend with is the overpaid/underworked sterotype that the populous applies to everyone holding a federal badge. There are some that fit the bill, but the vast majority earn their money.

next biggest employers after the gov is school systems

65cayne...you must work for the government!!! I agree that the government workers down in the trenches (the ones doing the work) are probably doing their share and are pushed just like civilian workforce folks....however, from experience, those at the higher levels are sometimes waaaaay overpaid for what the do or what they bring to the table. If they were in the private sector, they would be fired for incompetence fairly quickly.....in the government, they just get elected to congress!

I think 'Cayne works for the IRS..... I hope you didn't just screw up...

kidding....

Originally Posted by robot

65cayne...you must work for the government!!! I agree that the government workers down in the trenches (the ones doing the work) are probably doing their share and are pushed just like civilian workforce folks....however, from experience, those at the higher levels are sometimes waaaaay overpaid for what the do or what they bring to the table. If they were in the private sector, they would be fired for incompetence fairly quickly.....in the government, they just get elected to congress!

The overpaid/underworked statement has nothing to do with what level of bureaucracy a person works in. There are top notch people at all levels, and there are slugs at all levels as well. My whole point was that the original statistic, by itself, may be troublesome but when compared to other statistics...it is not that impressive.

Hell, if you want to cap salaries...why dont we do it so nobody can earn more than the President? EVERYBOY's paycheck comes out of someone else's pocket...just like taxes come out of your pocket. I demand that my tax dollars be used just as wisely as every other dollar I fork over...

Federal employee here and I can definitely tell you that a brain damaged squirrel sniffing paint fumes could make better business decisions than the management of where I work.