Detroitification

[Gipper]

It is coming to your town...if BO and friends have their way...

Economy Contracts, Government Expands
By Michael Jahr | 2/8/2010 11:36 AM

Is Detroit’s economic plight a bellwether for the nation? “Detroitification,” a phrase coined by my colleague, Jack McHugh, is defined as the hollowing out of the private economy to prop up unsustainable (and often unresponsive) government establishments. Is this an apt description of Washington’s policies?

The comparison seems unavoidable with the federal government spending at a frenetic pace and racking up record debt, while adding to the numbers and cost of government employment. According to USA Today, during the period of the current recession, “The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded.” While Americans struggle with unemployment, falling wages, failing businesses and housing foreclosures, federal employees are flourishing on the taxpayer dole. Josh Barro, senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, refers to this trend as "Two Americas."

One example from USA Today: “When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.” In just one federal agency, the top echelon bureaucrats have padded their generous government packages to the tune of $287,300,000. So much for shared sacrifice.

The decades-long policies that fattened the public sector at the expense of the private have produced tragic results in Detroit. Only if our elected officials realize that the private economy does not exist to provide for the political class, can the nation avoid Detroit’s fate.

And this will only happen if voters bring it to their attention.
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[ASPCA4EVER]

It is coming to your town...if BO and friends have their way...

WOW...I so love it when you don't bother to read the insets that tell the entire story to your OBAMA BASHING DIATRIBE...because if you had {snicker-he-he} you would have found the actual dates when the key indicators were implemented and the only increase that you can blame Obama for is the one that he implemented 2% for January 2010} the other ones happened on G.W.B. watches 3% in January 2008 and again for January 2009 of 3.9% prior to his last days in the White House (the paper work is signed off on weeks before the last day of the previous year so that the accounting department can get the payroll adjustments done for the first pay period of the new year.

BTW...The RECESSION STARTED ON G.W.B. watch...you just can't seem to keep that straight...to much marching in goose step making you very, very tired?

Please just keep setting them up and I'll just keep knock-en them down ...you as well as ASUR really need to read the data that your submit for PROOF especially when you are bashing {always with the bashing our President} like he's the enemy and you have a better master plan...GOOD GRIEF LMAO

Clipped from the USA TODAY inset:
Key reasons for the boom in six-figure salaries:
• Pay hikes. Then-president Bush recommended — and Congress approved — across-the-board raises of 3% in January 2008 and 3.9% in January 2009. President Obama has recommended 2% pay raises in January 2010, the smallest since 1975. Most federal workers also get longevity pay hikes — called steps — that average 1.5% per year.
•New pay system. Congress created a new National Security Pay Scale for the Defense Department to reward merit, in addition to the across-the-board increases. The merit raises, which started in January 2008, were larger than expected and rewarded high-ranking employees. In October, Congress voted to end the new pay scale by 2012.
• Paycaps eased. Many top civil servants are prohibited from making more than an agency's leader. But if Congress lifts the boss' salary, others get raises, too. When the Federal Aviation Administration chief's salary rose, nearly 1,700 employees' had their salaries lifted above $170,000, too.

 

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[Gipper]

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