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  Briefly: We did not ask for our families to go to war. Legislators always increase their pay substantially while the general population and federal employees try to keep up with the cost of living to support our families, gas prices, etc. Yet, when it comes to an increase for us in locality pay we are the last on the list for the last few pennies. Hundreds of thousands in bonuses have been paid to executive branch and management employees each fiscal year for bogus reasons; the rest of us still get a slap in the face for the hard work we are doing daily. This almost nothing locality increase is a joke and a slap in the face.

  Judy Carson Posted December 1, 2006 10:49 AM
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  Why does Congress continue to differentiate between civilian and military government employees? They are all government employees and should all be covered by the same pay considerations. Congress, remember that you got rid of the draft years ago but you do not seem to understand that there is no difference between military employees and civilian employees. The only reason for a pay difference would have to do with the work performed and that determines the pay scale not the across the board raises to be distributed! Give everyone a 3.5 percent raise and protect the purchasing power of government employee salaries! Get rid of the COLA increases in pay, as well as in Social Security. Stop spending tremendous amounts of our money to generate high inflation and cover your aspirations for re-election with COLAs on everything. COLAs insulate the elected from the voting public by paying them based on the bad government policies of tremendous spending that generate inflation. No one saves because inflation eats up savings and Congress runs around saying our pension problems are because no one saves enough. Stop inflation and see how much saving you generate.

  Taxpayer Posted October 13, 2006 6:56 AM