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While American families struggle to make ends meet under the effects of "Bidenomics," the president delivered a massive raise for federal civilian employees to close out 2023, hiking their wages more than five percent on average, in the biggest pay bump for bureaucrats in more than 40 years.

According to the Washington Post's story on Biden's executive order making the "historic" salary increases, the federal workforce "will receive pay raises averaging 5.2 percent — more in some high-salary areas — under an order President Biden signed" that "delivers the biggest increase to U.S. government workers since the Carter administration."

For the "close to 2.2 million people" in the federal workforce, the pay bump is "0.6 percentage points higher than last year's increase, which itself was the highest in two decades, and will take effect in the first full pay period of 2024," according to the Post.

The slap-in-the-face to hardworking American taxpayers in the private sector — who are of course on the hook for the cost of the wage increase — comes after "Build Back Better" and now "Bidenomics" caused inflation to surge to 40-year highs, sent interest rates to levels not seen since early 2001, and brought Americans more than 24 consecutive months of negative real wages.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the gold standard in the U.S. In August 1971, President Richard Nixon formally unpegged the U.S. dollar from gold, meaning the greenback was no longer convertible into bullion. Overnight, the dollar became a free-floating currency, measurable only by comparing it to other world currencies.

Mark wrote:This thread is about Brandon flooding the swamp creatures with cash. What in the hell are you babbling about?

Mark wrote:This thread is about Brandon flooding the swamp creatures with cash. What in the hell are you babbling about?

GFB wrote:

Mark wrote:This thread is about Brandon flooding the swamp creatures with cash. What in the hell are you babbling about?

He’s such a dipwad.

planosteve wrote:

Mark wrote:This thread is about Brandon flooding the swamp creatures with cash. What in the hell are you babbling about?

What I'm telling you is that it was Nixon, a Republican, that destroyed what was left of the gold standard that allowed him to do it. You didn't know that?

Mark wrote:

planosteve wrote:

Mark wrote:This thread is about Brandon flooding the swamp creatures with cash. What in the hell are you babbling about?

What I'm telling you is that it was Nixon, a Republican, that destroyed what was left of the gold standard that allowed him to do it. You didn't know that?

If you want to babble on about shit like that, then start your own damn thread and leave this one alone.

planosteve wrote:

Mark wrote:

planosteve wrote: What I'm telling you is that it was Nixon, a Republican, that destroyed what was left of the gold standard that allowed him to do it. You didn't know that?

If you want to babble on about shit like that, then start your own damn thread and leave this one alone.

So, your saying that if we don't agree with it, we're not allowed to disagree because it's "your thread"?