Your philosophical "high road" keeps getting us cost of living adjustments paid for with ps reductions. TA12 was cost neutral and TA15 was probably going to end up cost neutral as well. I'm hardly keeping up with inflation but the execs are enriching several generations of their own. They value themselves and their families future. Sorry pal, but integrity doesn't pay bills. And the furloughed guy you speak of....he already knows how " valued" he is to management.