Which of the following statements about the career civil service is most accurate?
A. Most civil servants are young people from blue-collar backgrounds who work a few years in the government before moving on to the private sector.
B. In order to ensure that the federal government operates as effectively as possible, federal regulations make it easy to fire incompetent civil servants.
C. As government employees, few civil servants have the power to form unions and bargain collectively.
D. Civil servants are paid according to where they rank on a numerical General Schedule rating system.
E. Civil servants may neither run for elected office (partisan or nonpartisan) nor contribute to an electoral campaign.
Answer: D
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