Your very own Poll said Ron Paul won by far. Count the votes people. Ron Paul 31 + K with ABC's proclaimed "front runner" having a pathetic 3,900 votes. This is a sad picture of freedom the special interests are painting, a pale shadow of liberty, we need to take our country back!!!
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This is great. The country is in major debt and these guys getting these hig-bonuses on top of their high salaries. Who are these folks? Political appointees? or career staff? I belive they might be political folks and not the regular career, because the reular careers should not be allowed to these kind of high-bonuses. GAO MUST on the bottom of this corruption.

Rich get richer, middle class gets poorer. its a shame the bigwigs dont see this and/or care.

You bunch of so called Big Wigs in Washington are a disgrace to America. You continue to steal by awarding yourselves big bonuses. Why don't you people be like the average American and stop your coveteous practices. Oh but that would be asking to much of you Blood suckers......true??

I am glad to see my tax dollars paying for the management teams that can't provide me with a bonus in the three years I have worked for the federal government. What about the people that actually do the work? Where are there bonuses?

Republicans recently railed against expanding health insurance for lower income children because they said it would cost too much. They also supported tax incentives for big oil companies. Now they're giving huge bonuses to top executives. How disgusting. They really need to get their priorities straightened out. Their moral and ethical failings never cease to amaze me. All you fine, upstanding citizens that keep voting Republican should feel mighty proud.

During my 34 years of Civil Service I have noticed that Managers get "greedy"
when there is a change in the pay system. They promote their favorites or friends. This is why I opted to throw in the white towel and retire. It's sad to have retired at such an early age (56) but enough was enough. Hope that in time, I will get rid of the bitterness.

Lots of politics & bureaucracy

Come on now this is nothing new. Here we have a country in debt, yet these guys can get that kind of money while everyone else gets a funky 2-3% raise. Who monitors these bonuses. I bet whoever oversees it probably gave himself one as well. Our country is ran by a bunch of crooks that will stab you in the back and smile at you at the same time.

What happen to public service.
Why the Hell should an elected person get a bonus.
Poor example of leadership

Wake Up America!
It's time to take our country back from the GREEDY RICH!

Sounds typical of government. Legislators give themselves raises and expect the rank and file wage and hour employees to struggle to make ends meet.

The fat cats get fatter, while the ordinary folks get leaner.

don't praise those senators too fast - let's remember that everyone who wants to "fix" social security in some way has no vested interest - they all have their own "specially" funded retirement packages, so what do they care.
dump them all and let's try to start from scratch - and if that doesn't work, then dump them too - until we get some good ones.

This isn't any different than corporate America where executives continue to give themselves hefty raises while they lay off the actual workers because the company is on a downturn. Or outsource our jobs overseas and give themselves bonuses for saving the company money while the average worker is out of a job. Greed will be the downfall of this country.

I wonder how far this goes back? I'll bet it started when the politicians started working for themselves and not the people who elected them. I am disgusted with ALL politicians no matter what party they are affiliated with. The more power they have the more they abuse it. What happened to by the people, for the people? or however that saying goes.

I work in HR for a federal agency, and its amazing that these execs get thousands of dollars in quarterly bonuses, but the individuals they task to do the actual work which usually requires working extra time, MAY get $500 -$1000, or a time off bonus.

Once you may a gs14 or above, you are financially set with extra monetary perks.

We need to have term limits on all elected offices to keep these people from ripping off our country. You think they'll vote that in? HaHa They should get Social Security like all of us do and not their salary plus Social Security for retirment. I don't get my salary when I retire.

There is no faster way to becoming a millionaire than to work a broken system which has no accountability for its own money. Be suspicious of anyone who spends their entire life working to be a politician because all that means is that they spent their entire life trying to figure out how to drain and already bleeding system. I mean honestly, do you ever stop and think how we have such an elitist government full of fat cat, stuff shirts, when the positions they fill pay more or less 100,000 a year. These jobs are horribly difficult to get loaded full of red tape and back door deals, does it make sense that people fight so hard for a position that pays so little. Unless all of these recent scandals just expose the underbelly lined with all the real perks everyone is shooting for.

For what it's worth: America is just a huge garden. Americans are the veggies. Taxes are the produce. The gardeners?, well, they are the elected ones and the beaurocrates, government employees. Think about it. Produce the taxes and keep quiet. They will water and fertilize the garden to keep it producing and life goes on. If a veggie gets out of line, well, just try it.

Excellent analogy Dave. I might you that one sometime.

every time i see an article like this (which is about 10x a day lately ) i get so disgusted with people. the problem starts with YOU! YOU are the ones who dont pay any attention to anything other than your bills/your church schedule/the football or baseball or basketball game game /your stupid computer/your fat overindulged kids/etc etc... UNTIL IT ROOSTS ON YOUR DOORSTEP AND WONT LEAVE THAT IS!!

YOU are the ones who voted for that traitor reagan and both the traitorous bushes. had to be someone cause i(and most of the people i know) didnt vote for those monkeys. these last 3 republican "presidencies" {read monarchies) and their "make the rich richer" agenda , (ie; tax cuts for the rich at the expense of necessary national priorities (such as bridge repair...) and at the expense of just about everything/anything else that is good for the average american as well, have about ruined this country.

along with illegal immigration that has been patently/conveniently ignored , mainly so as to provide big business and rich people with a large cheap labor force, add indifference to national infrastructure, warmongering , financial /economic blunderings just to mention a few of the problems that the REPUBLICAN administrations have now laid squarely in the path of any new bright and dare i say...HONEST politicians (what a dichotomy...) who might try to unravel such a gordian knot tied to perfection by the republican monkeys/morons YOU voted into office. gee,did i say thanks yet??