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We (government employees) now fall even further behind the private sector. There is a greying of the federal workforce that is going to have some very tragic results. I know most FReepers will violently disagree with me, but as a conservative federal employee for the past 33 years I do beleive my experience is there and what I am seeing is a mass exodus of experience from the government to the private sector. I currently make about 40% less than the local private sector does. Sure, I am hanging in there for the retirement, but what incentives are there beyond retirement? None! By law the work I do cannot be turned over to the private sector. There is no one coming along to be grown into the jobs when we leave. There are currently three of us in our work area, I am the youngest of the three at age 52+, so what happens when we leave? Where is the experience going to come from? IMHO Bush is shooting himself in the foot on this one.