The United States Secretary of Labor for the Obama Administration, Hilda Solis, disregards an old Bush policy of not raising the salary of incoming government employees above 20 percent. She hired 6 of her old congressional staffers to cushy appointments in the Department of Labor and rewards 5 of them with large increases in their salaries well above 20 percent. Honestly, it must be nice to have political connections so that you can get a huge income boost for doing nothing other than knowing someone. Isn’t that nice? You too can make a whole lot of money working a Federal job for Hilda if you worked with her before, and just think how you can spend all that new cash!!! CHA-CHING!!!
It’s all Hope, Change, and Progress in this new administration so we got a little silly and presented this in a Game Show format to change up our regular coverage of federal politics… enjoy
UPDATE: So what about the salaries of these staffers today? They’ve grown even more since this video was made… it’s all up up up! Remember these numbers and percentages were just the numbers used when they were hired. All of them are well over 50 raise right now, and many are over 100…So you can sleep safely in your bed knowing that some Department of Labor political staffer can afford a second beach house due to your tax dollars! YAY! Hope, Change, and CHA-CHING!… I mean Progress…
