If you aren't convinced yet that wages don't increase in the same rate as with cost of living, then I don't know what to say.
Don't worry, though. CEO pay has gone up hundreds of times. And that's all that really matters, right!? 
maybe OP would consider my idea: cut out the 11 bank holidays where federal workers get paid for sitting on their bums and use that to pay down the budget deficit...
So your solution to the fact that wages haven't kept up with inflation is to take away 2 weeks of PTO from federal employees?How exactly does that help? Make everyone work more hours for less money? Make them just survive and no more, and have no disposable income to buy anything other than the bare essentials? That's not exactly a route to a thriving economy.
This thread is getting more and more off topic as time goes on so I may lock it soon.