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| Pawlenty at CPAC 2011 |
Tim Pawlenty took his "Truth Tour" to Washington today, a town not known for honesty, which Jake Gibson discusses on his
Fox News blog:
Pawlenty has spent this opening week of his presidential campaign telling anyone who will listen what he calls, the "tough truths" that they may not want to hear.
First he went to Iowa, where he officially announced his campaign Monday and told all-important caucus voters government ethanol subsidies had to be phased out. Tuesday he was in Florida, arguably the most important swing state in the country, telling seniors the retirement age would have to be gradually raised and that the wealthy should not receive cost of living adjustments.
Wednesday the presidential hopeful used the nation's capitol as a backdrop to take on the issue of public servants. "We can't have government employees getting a better deal than the people who are paying the bill and that's the taxpayers and we need to bring the pay and benefits in line with the private sector and they're not in line," said Pawlenty. "We'll be calling for an audit for the total value of compensation, not just based on salary but the total compensation value and then compare that to the private sector and make sure that the federal government employee benefits and salaries do not go up until they're in alignment with the private sector."
When asked if there were any specific federal agencies he would consider eliminating entirely, Pawlenty demurred on specifics but did point to the housing giants Fannie May and Freddie Mac. "We'll have a budget proposal that will be out shortly but you can assume it will include reduction or elimination of a number of things one of which will be Fannie and Freddy. I know those aren't federal agencies per se, but they're essentially wholly owned subsidiaries of the federal government."
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