Federal Wage Freeze:
It's Like Tipping the Rich for Being Rich the Rude Pundit 11/30/2010 http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/federal-wage-freeze-its-like-tipping.html see also: Obama imposes pay freeze on 2.1 million federal workers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/fede-n30.shtml Unemployed and Unnoticed http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/pr20101130/index.html Let us not argue for a moment the economics of President Obama's proposed federal employee pay freeze , except to say that it's about as uselessly symbolic a gesture as giving a piece of fruit to a fat man. Instead, let us think for a moment about the utterly dumbfounding and worthless political nature of the act. Because the Republicans are like that fat guy, and they're gonna take that fruit and say, "That's great. Now give us the rest of the groceries 'cause we're fucking fat and hungry here." There was something just sorrowfully pathetic about watching the President, in the midst of negotiating...