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Originally Posted by WagnerX5
what will be the biggest travesty, as usual, will be the destruction of contracts from smaller projects (non LM, NG, BAH, Haliburton). Just look at the CIA, run my Gen. M Hayden who ran NSA prior to the new position. He piled on BS multi-year contracts in the 1/2 Billion dollar a contract range. When he got to the CIA he was told the 1/3 contractor workforce was too high. So they made a blanket statement to cut the contracted workforce by 10%+. The question is how will this be done? Most likely, blanket small project closures, without investigation as to the usability of the program.
More pompous liberal BS without actually saying "hey, what are we getting for the money really?". If you do some investigating you would be SHOCKED at the bullshit monies collected on legacy contracts that have little if any benefit, BUT because they have been in place so long..they don't get canceled. And why is that? Because Generals want their next star and don't want to be known as the guy that killed the previous projects that cost the government hundreds of billions of dollars. Accountability.....what a bitch.
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The key statement in the article is this one:
The report blames the rise in bad spending on a sharp increase in noncompetitive contracting and a general increase in the use of private companies to perform government functions.
There is too much money in politics, and every politician is in a hurry to hand out whatever contracts they can to their financial supporters. So whenever they can take a government function and turn it over to a private company, they do.
The problem is that the private company must make a profit, where as a government agency that would normally handle it would be non-profit. So either the private company will do less for the same money (and thus take a nice profit), or else the budget will be increased to allow for the profit.
The 2003 Medicaid bill was classic example of this. Turn over Medicaid to the HMO's so that they can make some profit off it. Put in the bill that Medicaid cannot bargain price with the drug companies, and now they can make more profit from it. So when you are done, everyone makes more profit and it costs the government hundreds of billions of dollars more than the old system. And it's such a benficial thing for the health care industry, that the congressman who sponsored the bill ends up quitting congress after serving 24 years to become the head of the pharmaceutical lobby at a multi-million dollar per year salary. You can't make this stuff up.
