On September 2, 2009
Obama Asking Government Workers To Sacrifice But Evidence Shows American Workers Already Have
President Obama is invoking emergency powers granted to the Executive Branch after 9/11 to arbitrarily reduce the planned Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Federal Government employees. The current plan was to provide a 2.4 percent increase to their base salaries. This is on top of any increases they are due to promotions or step increases. Most U.S. salaried workers do not receive COLA but do normally get an increase each year based on merit. President Bush also did this several times during his two administrations. Normally the increase is preplanned. The U.S. military also gets an annual increase to their base pay and in the past many different Presidents have tried to give more to the military then the…
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