Federal payroll to hits record of 2.15 million

Record levels in government employment are not too surprising given the growth in government spending.

The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over" and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force. . . .