Pay and Pension in the White House

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

The White House has seized on the company announcements as proof the law offers other benefits to workers.




"Why didn't they just tell their workers privately?" says Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University, who described some of the announcements as "implicit back-scratching" for the White House.


"They're making a big deal of this to serve some other purpose, maybe getting the country to like their product or getting the government to lay off a bit."

But it is also clear that self-promotion and political calculus are driving some of the announcements.

In the broader context, the benefits for workers are "trivial"

Yes they are stroking Trumps ego to avoid any blow back if they didnt bend the knee


http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42812453

Of course there’s a political component to the announcements. Obama didn’t announce his major accomplishments? He kept it all a secret?

Do you people hear yourselves? You don’t see the obvious bias?
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Obama didn’t announce his major accomplishments? He kept it all a secret?

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on big noticeable change is that whenever Obamaland announced some promising economic or employment numbers...they'd always get revised downward shortly thereafter.....haven't noticed that lately


Nov 29, 2017 - Bloomberg View Columnist Dan Moss discusses U.S. economic growth in the third quarter. The U.S. economy’s growth rate last quarter was revised upward to the fastest in three years on stronger investment from businesses...
Mar 30, 2017 - Growth in consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, was revised up to a 3.5 percent rate in the fourth quarter.
August 30,2017 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economic rebound in the second quarter was stronger than initially reported....

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Of course there’s a political component to the announcements. Obama didn’t announce his major accomplishments? He kept it all a secret?

Do you people hear yourselves? You don’t see the obvious bias?
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Not talking about what Trump says .... but the obvious stroking by those companys who he has give a windfall no bias just facts

[scottw]

Originally Posted by wdmso

Not talking about what Trump says .... but the obvious stroking by those companys who he has give a windfall no bias just facts

is anything that you claim not "fact"?