Blog 7: Bureaucrats

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/trump_orders_raises_for_overpaid_federal_bureaucrats.html

President Trump ordered all federal workers to get a 2% raise, which may not seem like a lot, but they make so much already that the pay raise is unnecessary. The average pay for federal workers is much more than the average pay of private sector workers. President Trump should be cutting their pay to match those in the private sector.

This relates to what we've been learning in class because we've been learning about bureaucrats. A bureaucracy is a large organization composed of appointed officials, like federal workers. A bureaucrat is a civil servant that works in the government, like a federal employee. A private sector is part of the national economy that is not under direct government control. Private sector workers don't earn as much as federal workers because federal workers work directly for the government.

I don't think the pay for federal workers should be raised because they already earn a lot of money. I don't think it should be cut either. I think the pay for private sector workers should be raised because they don't make nearly as much.