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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2324082, member: 59677&quot;]Civil Service pay is the cause of the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Civil servants accepted lower pay in exchange for better long-term retirement benefits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Government assume that could pay for these things out of current dollars because everything would continue to grow forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>( its called kicking the can down the road)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that growth isn&#039;t going to be endless, you have to pay for those past promises somehow. </p><p><br /></p><p>Either you keep kicking the can down the road, you put aside current dollars to pay for those obligations just like the private sector does, or you abrogate the past promises.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also since you no longer have the carrot to pay lower current wages, you have to pay wages that are competitive with the private sector to attract employees.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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