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From AFP:
US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a freeze on most government pay in a move to trim the country’s massive deficit.
The White House said the two year freeze would save two billion dollars in the 2011 fiscal year.
The measures will apply to all civilian federal employees including at theDepartment of Defense.
Military personnel will not affected.
“This freeze is not to punish federal workers or to disrespect the work that they do,” the White House said in a statement.
“It is the first of many actions we will take in the upcoming budget to put our nation on sound fiscal footing — which will ask for some sacrifice from us all.”
The announcement comes a day before Obama was to hold a long-planned pow-wow his Republican adversaries.
Read the whole thing here. Of course, this is a good first step, but only scratches the surface of the savings that could be claimed by reforming and restructuring the federal government. Outrage from AFSCME is 3…2…1…
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