I have colleagues who are just days away from getting a monumental pay cut and not because of anything they have done wrong. These are people I respect, people who work very hard for a living. They are talented, educated and dedicated professionals who have chosen the public sector and many are about to get what amounts to a 20 percent pay cut. They’re part of the tens of thousands of government workers facing one-day-a-week furloughs because of the massive $85 billion in domestic spending cuts needed in this year’s federal budget.
