Good news, everyone! Joe Biden is looking out for the little guy! You know, the poor struggling folks who live paycheck to paycheck, trying to figure out if they want to buy food, keep the lights on, or make a mortgage or rent payment. Or which kidney they plan to sell for a tank of gas. Biden is living up to his promise to grow the economy from the bottom up. And true to his word, he is seeing that everyone gets a fatter paycheck. Well, everyone who is employed by the federal government. Everyone else? Well, you all can pretty much suck it up and/or go to hell.
On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order giving all civilian federal employees a 5.2% pay bump. According to the Federal News Network, the raise will take effect during January’s first full pay period. Ostensibly, the wage hike is to close the gap between federal and private wages. The network reported:
The variation in pay based on locality pay areas stems from the 1990 Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA), which attempted to mitigate a growing wage gap between federal and private sector employees. Over the last year, federal employees earned on average 27.54% less in wages than their private sector counterparts, according to a report from the Federal Salary Council.
With that in mind, it is no wonder Biden chose now to codify the raises for federal employees that he announced in August. Well, there’s at least one voter demographic he stands a chance of locking up. The move and its timing did not go unnoticed. Twitchy corralled a few reactions from X:
https://twitter.com/ScotsFyre/status/1739659886252687562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/bandphan/status/1739662232143773758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Keltic_Witch/status/1739350311288840490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/fugitivemama/status/1739674485908001049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/mr__blonde_/status/1739346249369972954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1739431154682327281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/HammsLager/status/1739692175594848730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/mooshakins/status/1739689034585444578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
On the bright side, members of the military will also see a 5.2% bump, but keep in mind that this funding is through the National Defense Authorization Act.
No one will begrudge another person decent wages, or even the occasional raise. And I have known plenty of federal employees who were closet conservatives and/or were also contributing members of the community. But I also remember when the government shut down during the Obama administration. I was confronted by a furious federal employee, waving a press release she had crafted with her co-workers. The press release was an indignant rant on how put out these people would be by a two-week break, for which they would be reimbursed. That same employee was oblivious to the oil and gas jobs around the area that were disappearing courtesy of the administration’s energy policy.
So while federal employees celebrate their raises, the people employed by the private sector will still be trying to figure out how to continue to tread water. That’s if they can keep their jobs. And the Great Uniter finds another way to buy votes while simultaneously driving another wedge into America.
via pjmedia
