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  1. #97

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    Best line I've seen yet:

    Pay freeze? for TWO years?

    Sure, I'll take it. We don't need your money. Us FEDS can live on love alone.

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  3. #98

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    Yeah, that's what happens when Feds do more with less for so many years that we can now do everything with nothing.
    "When asked if my cup is half full or half empty, my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup." -Sam Lefkowitz

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    Quote Originally Posted by James48843 View Post
    Best line I've seen yet:
    I've have to agree -- it is a very good line.

    I think that's the biggest part of the problem 'Pay Freeze' has such a harsh sound -- I mean it sounds terrible.


    Would have been night and day if he's done it different.....

    He should have got 3 of the 'hottest singers around' -- I mean my gosh the women we have today compared to the orginal Supremes ....

    Anyway have the center one -- put us in a daze just seeing her ...

    and the other 2 making it even better......

    STOP --- in the name of love

    (line from the President - we need to stop spending and start saving)

    Before you break my heart

    (the future is heart breaking if we don't start now)

    Think it Oooover

    (consider this the time to act)

    Haven't I been goood to you

    (as Americans - all of us need to do our part)

    Anyway change it to 'Stop in the name of Love'



    It's all in how you present things -- gosh --- make it good !!


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    Quote Originally Posted by James48843 View Post
    I would think the hiring freeze will be next, and will be very high on the right-winger's list of "to-do's".
    Reducing the federal workforce through attrition is one of the items in the proposal to be voted on today by the deficit commission created by Obama. That is bipartisan, *not* "right-winger".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Reducing the federal workforce through attrition is one of the items in the proposal to be voted on today by the deficit commission created by Obama. That is bipartisan, *not* "right-winger".
    Hey man, that doesn't sound cozy and warm..

    Life is what we make of it and the big O - can't stop what's going on inside and all. It's a proven FACT that what we consider the 'Western Diet' - is highly associated with Depression and Anxiety.

    So don't let the King man get you down -- cause he is powerless to stop you from a 'traditional' -- or 'modern' diet.

    Then with that goooooood energy and all -- find some sparkles and blend with them -- and it's cool cause you got the power man -- it's your life.

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    Just adding the President's Memorandum on this matter. He says it's a matter of Administrator discretion, but it looks like he encourages all pay to be frozen, even performance based pay:

    The White House

    Office of the Press Secretary
    For Immediate Release
    December 22, 2010
    Memorandum -- Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

    MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

    SUBJECT: Freezing Federal Employee Pay Schedules and Rates That Are Set By Administrative Discretion

    On November 29, 2010, I proposed a two-year freeze in the pay of civilian Federal employees as the first of a number of difficult actions required to put our Nation on a sound fiscal footing. As I said then, Federal workers are not just a line in a budget. They are public servants who, like their private sector counterparts, may be struggling in these difficult economic times.

    Despite the sacrifices that I knew a pay freeze would entail for our dedicated civil servants, I concluded that a two-year freeze in the upward statutory adjustment of pay schedules is a necessary first step in our effort to address the challenge of our fiscal reality. The Congress responded to my proposal by including such a freeze in the Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011 (H.R. 3082), which I signed into law today (the "Act"). The Act freezes statutory pay adjustments for all executive branch pay schedules for a two-year period. It also generally prohibits executive departments and agencies from providing any base salary increases at all to senior executives or senior level employees, including performance-based increases.

    While this legislation will prevent adjustments in executive branch pay schedules that are made by statute, some laws allow such adjustments to be made by agency heads as an exercise of administrative discretion. In order to ensure consistent treatment of executive branch employees and to promote the fiscal purposes of my original proposal, agency heads who have such discretion should not provide any upward adjustments in Federal employees' pay schedules or rates during the two-year period covered by the statutory pay freeze.

    Accordingly, you should suspend any increases to any pay systems or pay schedules covering executive branch employees that could otherwise take effect as a result of an exercise of administrative discretion during the period beginning on January 1, 2011, and ending on December 31, 2012. You also should forgo any general increases (including general increases for a geographic area, such as locality pay) in covered employees' rates of pay that could otherwise take effect as a result of the exercise of administrative discretion during the same period. To the extent that an agency pay system provides performance-based increases in lieu of general increases, funds allocated for those performance-based increases should be correspondingly reduced to reflect the freezing of the employees' base pay schedule.

    This memorandum shall be carried out to the extent permitted by law and consistent with executive departments' and agencies' legal authorities. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall issue guidance on implementing this memorandum, and is also hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.


    BARACK OBAMA
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...tain-rates-pay

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    Ok, now I'm confused. I thought the freeze was to keep us at existing pay levels. the directive seems to be removing existing locality pay, not just freezing base pay. did I misunderstand?

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    I haven't heard anything about change in locality pay. I think since it freezes pay schedules (more than one schedule) pay is frozen at the rate on our respective locality pay schedules?
    "All the prophets of Doom, Can always find room, In a world full of worry and fear..." - Protest Song, Monty Python

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    Well, that's what I initially thought, but wasn't sure when I read that locality pay increases should not be allowed. sounded a little ambiguous to me.

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    I just went thru my annual review, where the raise and locality pay is always discussed, I was told not to expect any type of raise. But maybe my boss was confused. I'm stepped out so I wasn't expecting anything. I guess I'll just wait and see.
    “Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” - Huxley’s Brave New World

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  21. #107

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    Quote Originally Posted by CountryBoy View Post
    I just went thru my annual review, where the raise and locality pay is always discussed, I was told not to expect any type of raise. But maybe my boss was confused. I'm stepped out so I wasn't expecting anything. I guess I'll just wait and see.
    What he was probably referring to was the annual COLA, which has now been frozen for two years. If you were due a step increase, you would still receive it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steadygain View Post
    Hey man, that doesn't sound cozy and warm..

    Life is what we make of it and the big O - can't stop what's going on inside and all. It's a proven FACT that what we consider the 'Western Diet' - is highly associated with Depression and Anxiety.

    So don't let the King man get you down -- cause he is powerless to stop you from a 'traditional' -- or 'modern' diet.

    Then with that goooooood energy and all -- find some sparkles and blend with them -- and it's cool cause you got the power man -- it's your life.
    The modern diet is I-tal, mon! I-ree, I-ree!
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