Federal workers enjoying extraordinary boom in pay and hiring during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in private sector ;

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more
jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during
the recession's first 18 months - and that's before
overtime pay and bonuses are counted
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm