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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3911770" data-attributes="member: 48469">Meanwhile, those lower wage federal workers who are not retired and are not being paid cannot pay for food, housing or medical costs with their future pensions.Total compensation of federal workers is not typically better unless you’re a long-time career employee. Which is why the government can tend to have trouble recruiting high caliber employees into the mid-tier and lower.Will be an even bigger problem post-2018/19 shutdown, but the Republicans probably don’t care anyway. It’s in their political interest to hobble the government, then point to it as innefective and flawed and argue for its dismantling or privatization.</blockquote>