Don’t know what your point is with all that. I’m not reading the article about NGOs. A couple million people serve 330 million US citizens. Average wage is hardly a metric that says much. Read the Pew article. A large proportion are college educated and most feds make roughly 50k to slightly over $100k. Well I’d hope so.
Don’t know what your point is with all that. I’m not reading the article about NGOs. A couple million people serve 330 million US citizens. Average wage is hardly a metric that says much. Read the Pew article. A large proportion are college educated and most feds make roughly 50k to slightly over $100k. Well I’d hope so.
The Pew article is great, and documents general approval of federal workers, and highest wage earners…over 200k, are few and many oversee departments and regions with more employees than CEOs making far more.
Again….DOGE is wreaking havoc …dismissing thousands of highly qualified people providing essential government services, to be more efficient? And supposedly to save money when again, federal employees cost us about 1 percent of the total US budget.
They are doing this to abolish regulations, oversight and law enforcement that protect all of us. Why? Because this will enable corporations and the wealthiest among us, to further load up even more wealth for themselves. They view us as peasants, worker bees. Open your eyes.
You're starting to wake up to the fact that the streamlining of the federal government will involve much more than repurposing the federal work force. Cherry-picking the elements of the Pew study don't change the fact that the average federal employee is paid 106,000 dollars and enjoyed until now benefits, job security, and a pension that many would envy.
You're entirely right to point out that inefficient, but often talented, employees are only part of the problem. Regulatory capture means that the government is already serving special interests, rather than the electorate, and has been for the last century, or two.
Your contention that billionaires just now for the first time are controlling the levers of power for self interest is stunning and betrays a faith in fair and honest government that is mind-boggling.
The federal agencies you're defending approved "non-addictive" Oxy, and protected big tobacco decades after evidence surfaced of the harms of smoking.
Americans have never been as unhealthy and as poorly-educated dollar for dollar than Americans are now - and you contend that until DOGE showed up everything was hunky-dory. Bureaucrats don't decide government policy, you eagerly and humbly execute the will of the people, like it or not. If you're all as capable of excellence as you contend, I'd guess you'd be leaping at the opportunity to earn far more and be much more successful in the private sector - not clinging to the government tit.
Don’t know what your point is with all that. I’m not reading the article about NGOs. A couple million people serve 330 million US citizens. Average wage is hardly a metric that says much. Read the Pew article. A large proportion are college educated and most feds make roughly 50k to slightly over $100k. Well I’d hope so.
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The Pew article is great, and documents general approval of federal workers, and highest wage earners…over 200k, are few and many oversee departments and regions with more employees than CEOs making far more.
Again….DOGE is wreaking havoc …dismissing thousands of highly qualified people providing essential government services, to be more efficient? And supposedly to save money when again, federal employees cost us about 1 percent of the total US budget.
They are doing this to abolish regulations, oversight and law enforcement that protect all of us. Why? Because this will enable corporations and the wealthiest among us, to further load up even more wealth for themselves. They view us as peasants, worker bees. Open your eyes.
You're starting to wake up to the fact that the streamlining of the federal government will involve much more than repurposing the federal work force. Cherry-picking the elements of the Pew study don't change the fact that the average federal employee is paid 106,000 dollars and enjoyed until now benefits, job security, and a pension that many would envy.
You're entirely right to point out that inefficient, but often talented, employees are only part of the problem. Regulatory capture means that the government is already serving special interests, rather than the electorate, and has been for the last century, or two.
Your contention that billionaires just now for the first time are controlling the levers of power for self interest is stunning and betrays a faith in fair and honest government that is mind-boggling.
The federal agencies you're defending approved "non-addictive" Oxy, and protected big tobacco decades after evidence surfaced of the harms of smoking.
Americans have never been as unhealthy and as poorly-educated dollar for dollar than Americans are now - and you contend that until DOGE showed up everything was hunky-dory. Bureaucrats don't decide government policy, you eagerly and humbly execute the will of the people, like it or not. If you're all as capable of excellence as you contend, I'd guess you'd be leaping at the opportunity to earn far more and be much more successful in the private sector - not clinging to the government tit.