It looks to me like a lot of these people were overpaid. No wonder they were laid off. It’s like what happened to all the little web-brats in 2000/2001.
Since Obama gave the IRS 7 billion extra dollars over 5 years, that is the place to apply. They wont make 300,000 a year there but the fringe benefit will be the fun of auditing all the others making 300k.
That's the dark secret of the American economy over the past few years - a lot of grossly overemployed mid-level functionaries are never going to make anything like that kind of money again at a "job". They'll have to do something entrepreneurial, instead - a transition which Obama is hell-bent on punishing.