Getting fired is Mission: Impossible for bureaucrats in the Obama era

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Federal managers have fired fewer bad employees each year since President Obama took office.

Fewer than 4,900 career civil servants were fired in fiscal year 2013 out of 1.4 million — about one out of every every 300 employees — according to Office of Personnel Management data.

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