Feds keep hiring with sequesters in place: 400 jobs posted on first day back

Feds keep hiring with sequesters in place: 400 jobs posted on first day back. The sky isn’t falling, there just isn’t as much hot air in it as there was last week.

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  • But they have cancelled White House tours.
    Cutting another meaningless job in order to make things look desperate.

  • They were going to post 408 job openings, but the sequester has kicked in. Those 8 jobs would probably have knocked the unemployment rate down by .000001 per cent, and thus saved the economy, so BO will blame the upcoming depression on GOP penury.