Little wonder government workers voted for Obama

Federal employees are weathering the recession in fine form. While employees in the private sector worry about pay cuts, furloughs and layoffs, the number of federal employees is growing, and the pay checks are getting fatter. Source, and excerpt:

Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There's little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

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And Mr. Obama cares about government employees and what they think so much that he will let them influence his budget process. See Employee satisfaction survey will play role in budget process. Excerpt:

The Obama administration plans to use a biennial survey of employee satisfaction and morale to shape the 2011 budget process, according to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget.

True, we want workers at any job to have some degree of satisfaction. But is it asking too much to take a customers' satisfaction survey to determine whether the agency is actually providing the service they are paid to do? And better yet, let's ask taxpayers where to cut and where to spend. Now there's a radical concept.

To get your own federal job, go to USAjobs.gov where it says, "There are 33,112 U.S. Government job opportunities worldwide."

Comments

[Melissa]

Ok.. I checked jobs for 79704:
I found several job openings.
2 jobs w/ Homeland Security - deporting the illegals.
1 job for a soil conservationist.
The majority with the VA hospital in Big Spring.
I for one would be for a customer satisfaction survey of the VA Hospital. However, I dont think most Republicans want to deal with that issue.
As for a survey of the illegals and soil, well.. that would be a waste of money.

[Melissa]

oh, and FYI.. if you check the jobs for Houston most high salary jobs require a post graduate degree. Employee satisfaction and job security helps lure brightest workers to compete with the private sector.