If Social Security Gets No Increase, Why Do Federal Workers?

From Theledger.com

Regarding the Dec. 14 front-page article "1.1 Trillion Plan - Senate Sends Spending Bill to Obama," page A1 and A6 - Spending - Column 3, Paragraph 3, "The bill also approves a 2 percent pay increase for federal workers." The government stipulated that people on Social Security, Social Security Income and Social Security Disability will not be getting a raise next year in their checks because there has been no increase in inflation this year.

If this is true, then where did they find money to give their federal employees a 2 percent raise and why? Why should they get raises, but elderly and sickly cannot?

They're not having to choose between paying bills, electricity, eating or buy medications. They probably make three times what the elderly do.

These people on Social Security have paid into it all their lives, so when the time came for retirement, they thought they would be OK.

We're in a recession. There is no money for increases in Social Security, but there is always money for raises for government employees.