Obama Wants to Put Federal Workers’ Wages on Ice
In his latest bid to chip away at our nation's trillion-dollar deficit, President Obama announced a new proposal Monday to freeze civilian federal employees' salaries for the next two years, pointing to the need for all Americans to "sacrifice" .In his latest bid to chip away at our nation’s trillion-dollar deficit, President Obama announced a new proposal Monday to freeze civilian federal employees’ salaries for the next two years, pointing to the need for all Americans to “sacrifice” for the good of the whole — except on Wall Street, apparently.
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