White House Top 20 Raises…So Much for ‘Shared Sacrifice’

31 Jul

White House Top 20 Raises…So Much for ‘Shared Sacrifice’

Posted 31/07/2011 by sfcmac in Economy, Politics. 10 Comments

The military got a whopping 1.4% pay raise, which will be eaten up by taxes. Military retirees like myself, got zilch.

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Posted by White House Raises | Control and Consent on 12/08/2011 at 15:42

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Posted by sfcmac on 05/08/2011 at 06:54

Eric,
So much for “fact check”:

Obama famously instituted a salary freeze for all White House staffers earning more than $100,000 on his first day in office because “during this period of economic emergency, families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington.”

But there wasn’t a lot of belt-tightening for the rest of the staff: We crunched the numbers and found that, of the 344 White House employees who were listed on the payroll in both White House’s 2009 and 2010 salary reports, 253—or 74%—got raises in 2010. And among that lucky overwhelming majority, the average raise was 9%. And plenty of people making more than $100,000 a year did get a raise as long as a title change came with it.
http://gawker.com/5687778/white-house-staffers-got-a-bigger-raise-than-you-did-last-year

MORE:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Annual-Report-to-Congress-on-White-House-Staff-2009/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2010
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm

It’s accurate.
SFC MAC
Posted by Robert Wagner on 04/08/2011 at 18:51

Did this pass the Snopes test ?

I am having trouble getting a reply from Snopes ?????
Posted by Eric on 04/08/2011 at 17:07

http://factcheck.org/2011/08/top-20-white-house-raises/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

and not accurate either