Comments on: Soak the Rich, Bash Business, Cripple Confidence and Create Jobs? http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/soak-the-rich-bash-business-cripple-confidence-and-create-jobs/ Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Thu, 23 May 2013 08:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Elephant's Child http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/soak-the-rich-bash-business-cripple-confidence-and-create-jobs/#comment-5649 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:11:17 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=13670#comment-5649 Guess who are “the rich?” A couple who both work for the federal government. The average federal employee now makes 2x as much in salary and benefits as his counterpart in the private sector. Average federal compensation is topping $120,000. Federal workers in general owe more than $ 1 billion in unpaid taxes. And last year Uncle Sam paid out $408 million in bonuses to 1.3 million federal workers — about $80 million more than last year. The rest of the country may be having a recession, but not in D.C. November can’t come soon enough.

]]> By: zeusiswatching http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/soak-the-rich-bash-business-cripple-confidence-and-create-jobs/#comment-5645 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:15:20 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=13670#comment-5645 “Mr. Obama’s economic messages have consistently focused on the idea that the “well off”, the “special interests”, the fat-cats”, the “well-connected” have somehow screwed the middle class.”

Well if he is talking about the guys who bellied up to the Federal trough to get bailout money then he would be right. Oh wait, these are not the guys he is talking about.

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