Why it can be hard to get people to work for the government

Probably also why I don’t give much thought to it:

 

"There are about 6,000 FSOs," or Foreign Service officers, he told an audience in San Francisco this month. He drew laughter when he added that former secretary of state "Condi Rice used to say, 'We have more people in military bands than they have in the Foreign Service.' She was not far wrong."

 

http://www.”washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082304711.html