http://dailyreckoning.com/it%e2%80%99s-too-bad-if-you-dont-think-federal-workers-deserve-twice-your-pay/ Entertaining Ideas on the Economy, Markets, Gold, Oil and Investing Strategies. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:42:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dailyreckoning.com/it%e2%80%99s-too-bad-if-you-dont-think-federal-workers-deserve-twice-your-pay/#comment-35644 Jamie Ross Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:27:46 +0000 http://dailyreckoning.com/?p=19633#comment-35644 The issue isn't why federal workers make so much, but why private sector workers make so little they had to take on so much debt etc. Globalization and "Free Trade" has devastated the income of US workers and that is the issue that should be addressed. Slap tariffs to equalize labor benefits and costs so offshoring of jobs is based on something else than wage arbitrage. The issue isn’t why federal workers make so much, but why private sector workers make so little they had to take on so much debt etc. Globalization and “Free Trade” has devastated the income of US workers and that is the issue that should be addressed. Slap tariffs to equalize labor benefits and costs so offshoring of jobs is based on something else than wage arbitrage.

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