And what of those who are not engineers? Do they not matter to you? Maybe I'm being dense, but I assume that the engineers are making the most, so they were not

And what of those who are not engineers? Do they not matter to you? Maybe I'm being dense, but I assume that the engineers are making the most, so they were not the ones I was referring to. An economy doesn't subsist only on engineers alone. The trivial increases in terms of wages or one time bonuses are going to the non-engineers; the manual laborers, low level employees, etc.. These one time increases and whatever other bread crumbs that get handed out are sculpted to feel good at that moment, but pale in comparison to the truck that's going to hit them down the road when the completely unnecessary government budget deficit as a result of tax relief for the rich starts eating away bit by bit at the government and country. This isn't hyperbole. This is history repeating itself.