Call a Waaaahmbulance!

Because I'm sure we are about to hear some epic whining from feds.

From CQ Politics Blog:

Obama Asks Federal Workers to Sacrifice

By Jonathan Allen | August 31, 2009 4:30 PM

Citing the current economic recession -- and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eight years ago -- President Obama says he will use emergency powers to cut the programmed across-the-board January increase in federal employees' pay from 2.4 percent to 2.0 percent, according to a letter he sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Monday.

The move was not a surprise, as Obama telegraphed a 2 percent increase in the budget he proposed earlier this year. But it's certainly not welcome news for federal employees, whose unions protested when Obama's budget was released.

"Title 5, United States Code, authorizes me to implement an alternative pay plan if I view the adjustments that would otherwise take effect as inappropriate due to 'national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,' Obama wrote in Monday's letter. 'A national emergency, within the meaning of chapter 53 of title 5, has existed since September 11, 2001. Likewise, with unemployment at 9.5 percent in June to cite just one economic indicator, few would disagree that our country is facing serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare."

I'm not sure what 9/11 has to do with it, unless His Imperial Majesty Barack Hussein Obama is trying to imply that George W. Bush is somehow at fault--but then, he is ALWAYS trying to blame George W. Bush, even when he infuriates his base by continuing George W. Bush's policies...

Anyway, as Instapundit suggests in the title of his post ("OBAMA ASKS FEDERAL WORKERS TO SACRIFICE — By 0.4 percent! “Citing the current economic recession -…"), taking a cut in the planned raise of four tenths of one percent--a 2% raise rather than 2.4%--should hardly be considered a hardship in the face of the numbers of people who are unemployed, underemployed, or in jobs where they are getting no raise, or even taking a pay cut.

Be intersting to see how this one plays out, Congress vs. HIMBO vs. the Fed Unions...