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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds inefficient and more costly[/quote]

To the contrary. Hiring contractors for non-governmental duties allows for greater flexibility in staffing, accompanied by lower benefits costs. [/quote]

Lower?

Hourly wage for a direct employee, including benefits - $100
Hourly wage for contractor, including benefits, same work - $300.

Your math is weird.  But I am open to learning.[/quote]

All these morons chiming in that contractors are cheaper operate in the 1950s when Feds got good pensions. It isn’t like that anymore. The only benefit working for the government is stable (yet expensive) health insurance. [/quote]

Yeah.  What Reagan did in that regard didn't help.  Simply blew up total government expense (with all the overhead of corporate profit, increased contract personnel, adopted the inefficiencies of higher churn in those personnel, required rules that add to contractor overhead which then gets paid for in contracts anyway, etc.) and made accountability nearly impossible.

There are Feds who don't do a great job, just as in any large enterprise.  Most do a very good job with the constraints they are given (including having to deal with so many relatively unaccountable contractors), and could do a much better one with fewer rules and more autonomy (and then personal accountability).  The idea that these (the ones who do a decent job, especially at senior levels) are overpaid is laughable, given the hourly-LOE-equivalent earning potential in the private sector (in normal market conditions -- not when so many are suddenly dumped) of their typical education-skills-and-experience qualifications.[/quote]

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