I should apologize for blogging a story like this except highlighting the fact that the federal workforce numbers will skyrocket under Barack Obama is the best way to show the American people how drastic the changes the president is trying to implement.Declan McCullagh on the CBS News website:At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge. Executive branch employment - 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department - is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year. There's little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year. Meanwhile, according to Forbes'...(Read Full Post)