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Ya its called reduction in force. When things go bad we privatize things. Where I work was over 8500 people in the late 80s by the late 90s it was down to 3000 people. Now we are back up to 4400.

Also a couple years ago the military closed a lot of bases (BRAC), my base actually started on the list but was removed. If it had closed those 4000+ people would be out of work plus the 1K or so other people whose jobs were related to the base. My wife actually worked for IBM doing contract work with us so we both would have lost our jobs.

The government has decreased in size at an amazing rate...it is half the size it was in the 80s. Now government contractors on the other hand are probably way up since the work load hasn't really decreased in most areas. There has been a huge push to privatize stuff which actually has ended up costing us more money and is resulting in huge security problems.
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true, but i dont think my main clients in DC are shrinking anytime soon. in fact i think there is plenty of growth left.
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