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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
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What's the ratio of merit based to political appointee? I'm reading through, but I haven't seen it yet. ETA: I don't think that data is in there. I'll look for it elsewhere.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs041.htm This makes it appear that political appointees, using the number in the article Nittanyalum linked, are a really small percentage of total government employees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100501782.html This seems to cover the same window of time and looks at growth overall.
Will the Bush appointees all be expected to resign with the new administration?
ETA: It's appalling that the government grew this much with Republican control, but I'm not seeing the evidence that a change in leadership equals a change in the nature of the bureaucracy although I'd love to see Obama reduce the overall size as well as reform the process.