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Originally Posted by buggyone
I was just reading on Mitt Romney's plan to be President about some of the things he proposes to do.
One was to cut the size of Federal government employees by hiring one for every 2 that leave. Another was to reduce the salary of the Federal employee so it would "match" with the same employee in private sector. This could be up to 40% according to the plan. The idea of this is to streamline the government workforce and to get bright new talent into the workforce. I do not see bright new talent going into a system where the pay has just been cut and you are told you have to do a lot more work with less reward. The talent will go to the big money jobs in private sector.
I would like to know how the Republicans think they would have a single Federal employee vote if the employees read this information? It is saying that the Federal employee will have to do more work with less salary and the retirement benefit will be lowered as well.
I would think that the vital services such as processing veterans claims, health care, Social Security payments, and Medicare payments and processing would take longer and longer to do do with a smaller staff of probably unhappy employees doing more and more work as their salaries got cut. How would the Repubicans take care of that problem?
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You're right on Romney probably not getting a lot of votes from federal employees, unless they're in the Defense Department.
But I think that they'd have little difficulty getting both bright, well educated entry-level folks, as well as those that they need for middle management. A huge number of kids are graduating from college with no job to go to other than Mickey D's or cutting Dad's lawn. And what about all those middle managers who have been let go in recent years and will never be re-hired? My son tells me he had to terminate about half his department at one of the auto companies, most of whom he describes as competent, hard-working, smart folks. The government will get all they need at the top levels, as they always have, even though those jobs typically don't pay anywhere near as well as more senior management in the private sector. Remember, those government positions have a lot more job security Han the private sector.