From the article: How Federal Workers Would Save Your Money
The President's
SAVE Awards program
seeks ideas from federal employees on how the U.S. government can save taxpayers money. Whether you are a federal employee or not, you probably have some good ideas on how the government could save money. Share your ideas here. Share Your $$ Saving Idea
DoDEA Assistant Principal--South Korea
- School Administrators work on a 222 day schedule. We don't receive Christmas Leave or Spring Break Leave unless we take it off of our sick leave banks or our summer work schedule. DoDEA is always talking about saving money and the furlough, etc. I would like our work schedule reduced from 222 to 212 days. Administrators could take the Christmas time to be with families or the much needed spring break. Teachers and students are not at school and that could be a caveat to giving the days (not when students are in session). There are many Principals, Assist. Prin., and ISS people on the 222 day schedule. If it were reduced to 212 and the pay were reduced by 10 days, that would save a great deal of money in salaries and building maintenance fees, cooling, etc. It would make the furlough easier to swallow.
- —Guest Darinda J. LaFon
federal budget NOT like a household budg
- No one on this forum understands that federal finances are not like personal finances.The federal government is the issuer of our currency. Its IOUs are always accepted in payment. Government actually spends by crediting bank deposits (and credits the reserves of those banks); if you don’t want a bank deposit, government will give you cash; if you don’t want cash it will give you a treasury bond. People will work, sell, panhandle, lie, cheat, steal, and even kill to obtain the government’s dollars. I wish my IOUs were so desirable. I don’t know any household that is able to spend by crediting bank deposits and reserves, or by issuing currency. OK, some counterfeiters try, but they go to jail.
- —Guest Steve
federal govt does not need to save
- If the government "saves" or pays less money (CUTS SPENDING) to food stamp recipients, social security recipients, medicare providers,soldiers, military equipment manufacturers, doctors, nurses, hospitals, road and bridge and dam builders, farmers, poor people, teachers, home builders, railroad personnel, security-related firms and to all the other businesses selling to the government, the belief is that the private sector somehow will grow economically or have more money for investment. The exact OPPOSITE happens. Federal spending is spent back into the economy by those receiving it. This acts as a stimulus. Folks on here act like the money goes down a giant hole somewhere. ignorance abounds judging from most comments here. And once again, this is why our leaders have managed to guide us into an average of one recession every five years-by DECREASING deficit spending. The federal government (monetarily sovereign) neither has nor does not have dollars! Yikes!.
- —Guest steve
Transit Checks
- Currently IRS employees (and most likely other Government Agencies) receive quarterly checks for the employee to commute back and forth to work on Public Transportation (SEPTA). I Suggest ending this. The public does not get their transit between their home and workplace paid for so why should government employees? I am not sure how much the IRS/Government actually pays for this benefit, however, it is most likely costly to them.
- —Guest Julia Suggests...
firefighter overtime
- change work schedules for federal firefighters, they currently do 32, 20, or 16 hours overtime every week this could and be reduced using risk management
- —Guest John Evans
wind energy
- some times you have to spend money to save money. every munisipality should put up a few wind turbins to tie into the grid to use to save on there ellectric costs on street lighting and outer things just an idea also solar panels could help.
- —Guest gibson66@hotmail.com
legislature
- give a term of four years and out. so special intrest will go broke paying them off. get some one new in there to get somthing done.
- —Guest gibson66@hotmail.com
Public works
- Phosperous removal, .075 ppm will create jobs but will cost the tax payers millions that they dont have please stop this from takeing place our money will be going down the drain, in 2014 all meters containg lead in the brass water meters have to be taken out of service this alone will cost tax payers millions state wide. there is plumbing installed with lead soder in houses already why do we have to chang out meters? What I do to save money is on our big well meter in stead of buying a new one for 700 dollars I test and callabrate for 100.Back to the phospourus limits coming, the neighboring states are not bound to these limits are they why should Wisconsin shoulder these limits when minnisota dont or iowa or illinoise.
- —Guest Paul Gibson
Govt. shipping locks maintenance
- Have ALL users pay per boat/ship length. Seattle locks are FREE to public use.
- —Guest William Richter
work preformance
- if you owned a company and your management team preformed like congress you would fire them not give them a pay raise. we need to find a way to tie their income to their preformance
- —Guest rick niblick
means testing
- many people get social cequrity who obviously don't need it why would we give milioners a social security check. I know a guy who just retired well off his wife much yonger still working six figure income they have 6 young children and he gets $600.00 each per child just because he is over 62 and qualfies for it why?
- —Guest rick niblick
postage stamps
- allow advertisement on our stamps ie: ford ibm pepsi google anyone could ahve their company advertise on us postsge stamps it will svae everyone $$$$$$$$ and help out the post office at the sametime its a win win
- —Guest rick niblick
Chan@yahoo.com
- In one of the above comments some body has written as SSI is absued, in my strong words everything in America is absued.Every law in america has a loop hole is the responsible to abuse.How long people can do like this.Time will come to burst out.How much Americans can sustain?
- —Guest Chan
save tax payer money tip
- Make food stamp card for use only on whole foods- fresh produce, uncooked meat, can foods, dry goods, spices, juice and milk. Cutting out all the chips,processed foods, prepared frozen meals, soda and candy. Could save millions!!!
- —jeanniemagnus
Cap locality pay
- Anyone making over $75,000 year should not receive locality pay. Cap locality pay. Plus, fed employees working overseas should only receive overseas pay not both. The State Dept. is currently paying locality pay(DC rate$$$) and oversea pay to its employees. Just pay one please.
- —Guest Kenneth E. Frith
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