Obama Proposes Two-Year Salary Freeze for Federal Employees

they are making more money then working people does.they shuld not make any more moneythan middle class people make.they do not work ner as hard.

I'm a Federal employee.....not surprised by this announcement at all. My GS-05 pittance of a 'cost of living' increase will take YEARS to put a dent in any deficit.... It will, however, put an immediate dent in the amount of groceries I'm already strugglng to afford, (among other basic life necessities) and of course our health care went up too (substantially) this year. Anyone who thinks Fed employees are well paid...you are SADLY mistaken. Only people in Washington DC are making any money as Federal employees.

patminbros---that happened to be the times when america thrived--remember--steel workers--papermill workers--no good jobs--keep buying from china

I am a Federal Employee. You can keep my proposed 1.2% pay hike with my blessings. So by doing that we can reduce the deficit by $52 dollars a month!! Wow! Good call!! Similar to when the airlines were going belly up, they discontinued serving food. These are MINISCULE efforts...the gov't needs a better system of letting federal employees point out waste and overkill. We have poured bajillions into the postal service and its WORSE. I would be happy to get all of my junk mail three days a week instead of six. Too much red tape, too many unneccessary mandates, too much "fear" about the bad guys...you name it. We've gone waaaaay overboard.

Way to go! This is just what the economy needs-more money that could have been spent on goods and services by fed employees taken out of play. The vast majority of federal workers (I was one for 31 years, a nurse serving our veterans) do not earn more than their privately employed counterparts-the VA, in fact, would do a regular survey of local nurse's pay to make sure we were not being paid more than them. We were NOT all members of a union-this was optional and actually a relativly small percentage of us did belong. Now the republicans are engaged in treasonous behavior-signing a letter vowing to hold up ALL legislation until we can borrow 70 billion/year from China just to pay for con't taxcuts for the rich.

i am a federal employee, willing to not get a raise for 2 years, but i expect congress not to give themselves a raise for the same 2 years

Get rid of unions (labor laws have out dated unions anyway), and you can cut trillions of dollars!!! Oh, but wait, Johny got his GED and Dad, uncle Bob, and aunt Christy all work at the plant making $70 to $120 an hour, so isn't Johny entitled to $58 an hour to start? After all, he's a union boy, his dad and grand pappy were union boys... he's fricken entitled!! How many of you college graduates out their started a job at $30/hr???? ya... that's what I thought... FIRE THE UNIONS!

Actually, how about congress, the senate, and the whitehouse take a 25% cut of all pay in excess of $100,000 salaries? Huh? How about it Mr. President - Harry Reid is worth $6,000,000. and he's been on the government dole for 30 fricken years!!! OK, too deep? how about a progressive cut in Federal and elected salaries... the difference in wages in excess of $100K by 15%, over $125K cut by 25%, and the difference in wages in excess of $150K by 35%... that would save America hundreds of billions of dollars while still supporting these "PUBLIC SERVANTS" with six figure salaries!! Geees fricken Louise!!!!!

Well doesn't that fit about right? Obama wants to freeze salaries of regular federal workers but exempt congress and their staffs. Why is it they should be exempt? Does not the government WORK for the people? That whole theory of "We the people" is a sad joke. Government does not, and will not listen to the people and do right by the people until the people stand up and say enough is enough. Electing republicons won't do it, they are as big a crooks as the democrats. We need a new form of government, one that really does listen to, work for and care about the people. Throw them all out and start over. Burn DC, it only conjures up ill feelings to hear anything about Washington DC.

After reading this thread through yesterday and today, I've come to two conclusions. #1 How misinformed non federal workers are about federal workers and the full scope the job fields they are in, and #2 this president has divided people against each other more than any other president in my lifetime. What a sad mess!