Federal salaries grow and grow

Federal salaries grow and grow

EDITOR:

In the Friday’s USAToday, it was reported that the number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14 percent to 19 percent of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that is before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

This is unreal and the general taxpayer public is ignoring such practices while they are being laid off due to plant closings, taking concessions on contracts, seeing jobs going out of the country and an increasing number of foreclosures and bankruptcies. Even the pensioners have taken a cut-back with health benefits and/or lost of pension due to companies going bankrupt. Senior Citizen getting Social Security will not receive any COLA adjustment for the next two years.

Both the banking Industry and the public sector are ignoring the plight of the taxpayer who basically pays their salary with state and federal income taxes.

So, when will this vicious cycle end? As the general public takes a pay concession, it should also occur with the public sector and the banking industry with their “bonuses”.

NEIL D. FRASCA

Youngstown