<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0055a440-f063-49f9-a063-e80b0be0b386/9B00BE99-7648-4B0D-AE2E-B6923AC316F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx" href="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thefreeenterprisenation.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">On average, <STRONG>federal civilian wages</STRONG> in 2008 was $79,197, <STRONG>more than 50% greater</STRONG> than that of the average private sector employee’s wages of $49,935, according to the Cato Institute’s analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The U.S. government issued <STRONG>employee bonuses of some $370 million</STRONG> in the fiscal year ending September 2008. The largest bonus went to a Department of Energy administrator who received a $62,925 bonus in 2008 on top of his $172,200 base pay.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In <STRONG>New York</STRONG>, 121,000 state agency workers collected more than $459 million in <STRONG>overtime</STRONG> in 2007. One developmental aide clocked in 2,455 extra hours, bringing her salary from $38,500 to $110,841. That’s almost <STRONG>triple her base salary</STRONG>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/ohmy.aspx"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The <STRONG>majority of public sector workers have pension plans</STRONG> that allow them to <STRONG>retire much earlier</STRONG> (10-25 years earlier) and that <STRONG>provide benefits many times the retirement payout that Social Security</STRONG> would provide.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9B00BE99-7648-4B0D-AE2E-B6923AC316F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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