As pundits exult over the latest Obama administration appointments–Hillary Clinton! Robert Gates! Bill Richardson!–short shrift has been given to a much larger group of federal employees who will play a critical role in the new presidency. Political appointees come and go, but the 1.8 million civil servants who spend their careers in the federal government are forever–at least until recently. Almost half that workforce could leave government by 2012, leaving the new administration scrambling to keep basic services running, much less implementing major new initiatives.
Maybe there is hope.
I doubt it, though. I’m sure that part of Obama’s “economic stimulus job creation package” will not only replace these drones, but add more to their total.
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