Truth Revolt
by Albert Merrick
December 13, 2013

On MSNBC Thursday, panelist Aisha Moodie-Mills lamented the way the federal budget was being balanced on the backs of “regular folks.” Specifically, while interviewing Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI), she asked when “the workers” might get more benefits from the federal budget:

The congresswoman actually brings up a really great point. This idea of compromise. The question I always have, why are we always compromising on the backs of regular middle class American folks.

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Congresswoman Moore then responded with a startling assertion:

We're going to have a very hard time after this year recruiting good federal employees because, again, federal employees are taking a hit on those pension plans.

The budget plan is to ask for a 1.3% increase in pension contributions from newly hired federal employees. As to Congresswoman Moore’s assertion regarding the difficulty of hiring more federal employees, the current average salary for a federal government employee is $78,467 - more than 50% more than the median household income in America today. So the idea that the federal government will be hard-pressed to recruit good candidates, when its pension plan and average compensation still wildly outpace the private sector, strains credulity.

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