[grania]

I thought I was trading less salary for job security but there won't be many of us left working for Uncle Sam unless we become contractors

Uncle is hiring contractors instead of full-timers? I hope they're US citizens.

[Jumper]

Yea, gotta have a clearance:)

[Maximum Leader]

Probably not. In fact, Uncle Sam has been hiring contractors for years so the politicians can say (like Clinton did) that the federal workforce is the smallest since the Kennedy Administration. What it means is that there are fewer civil servants and way more contractors.

I dated a girl who was an Accenture consultant and she managed a team of 20 who worked for the Dept. of Education. That's 21 people being paid by the taxpayers and yet none of them count as part of the federal workforce.