What next, health insurance?

Oh, dear God, don't take me seriously!

If you are unaware, benefits for federal employees and their families are under attack once again. As my friend Digger asks, "How long do we have to be our country's whipping boy?"  This week, not only has it been proposed that our step increases be frozen (don't forget that annual raises are already frozen), but now there is a bill that wants to screw around with our retirement benefits.

When is enough ENOUGH?  When will federal employees be looked at as those who help you?  Why are we seen as overpaid (ha!) and underutilized?  Is our family not looking at a second unaccompanied tour (voluntarily, I might add)?  Due to the needs of the Foreign Service, will I have not spent nearly five years* as a single parent by May of 2013?  Does it mean nothing to promise certain benefits and then allow those who apparently understand us the least to simply yank them away?  

I don't know what more to write.  I have worried about so much this past year, and really don't need another item to add to the list.  Yet, it seems that every day, another benefit is under attack and I am just exhausted by the stress of it.  Yes, we chose government service, but we were also made a promise.  Let's just hope that promise is kept.

*If you recall, I was basically a single parent while Peter spent three years on the Secretary's detail.  Naturally, such jobs have a rigorous schedule and travel can be at a moment's notice.  We accept that, but we also ask that we get the benefits we are entitled to receive DUE to that service. The above is not a rant, but a reminder that just because we are stationed State-side does not mean that we are always united as a family.  

 

 

Comments

[Alex]

What drives me nuts is that it's TOTALLY political. The amount of money saved by freezing step increases or whatever is so tiny in the grand scheme of things.

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