It's Good To Be Part of the Nomenklatura
Social Security Administration Employees Get a 38% Larger Raise than Social Security Recipients
From Wikipedia:
The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, IPA: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə] ⓘ; from Latin: nomenclatura, system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
Last week, on Dec. 22nd, President Biden gave federal employees an early Christmas present when he issued an executive order providing civilian federal workers with an average pay increase of 5.2% (depending on location, in some cases as high as 5.6%) next month.
Coincidentally, just the other day I received my annual notice from the Social Security Administration, telling me that due to a cost-of-living adjustment my monthly benefits will go up by 3.2%.
Also coincidentally there’s a Social Security Disability Hearing Office less than a five minute walk from my home and I was planning on getting some take-out today from the kosher restaurant on the ground floor of that building. Perhaps I’ll stop in at the SocSec office and ask the workers there how they feel about getting a 38% larger increase in their pay than Social Security recipients will receive in their benefits.
To be fair Federal pay rates have not been keeping up with inflation. Fortunately I have a collective bargaining contract and get a COLA every 6 months
https://www.fedsmith.com/2022/01/24/53-years-annual-federal-pay-raises/
You're going to hate me for this ronnie but _YOU_ voted republican and they're the one to blame, not President Biden .
-Nate