Anonymous
02/28/2025 15:15
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:More than 90% of the world population and nearly 100% of all the people who lived before us, would be ecstatic to live currently in the USA.
The world has never been a better, safer, and more livable place than now. And the USA is the luckiest place you can be. Ignore the politics.
-Moderate who voted for Kamala
It sounds like you have not seen much of the world.
What do I know, an immigrant born and raised in another country for half my life.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 15:05
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:By grift you mean swindling? You ain't seen nothing yet. You don't know how good you had it.Anonymous wrote:The grift is over, folks.
Every contract that is awarded had to be competed openly and publicly. The proposals that came in were evaluated under strict conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules. Choosing the higher cost proposal needed a separate justification. The staff on the contract had to be vetted and ok'd and their hourly charge rate was limited. Every dollar that was spent had to be verified and recorded at each transaction. Yearly, at least, reports had to be submitted for review by a separate contracts office. Then every few years there might be an audit by the office of inspector general.
And yet, the contracts end up being awarded to the company the client wanted from the start - not the best value or the most qualified. It's easy to fudge the paperwork before and after the award and the IG is limited in how deep they are allowed to dig.
There are checks and balances on paper, but the scrutiny is not as thorough as you are trying to describe. Lots of make-work both on government and contractor side.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:56
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:More than 90% of the world population and nearly 100% of all the people who lived before us, would be ecstatic to live currently in the USA.
The world has never been a better, safer, and more livable place than now. And the USA is the luckiest place you can be. Ignore the politics.
-Moderate who voted for Kamala
It sounds like you have not seen much of the world.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:42
Subject: Re:Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can’t get rid of feds themselves (which they’re having trouble doing) this seems like an easier way to cut. I’m getting more and more depressed and would leave this area if it weren’t for our kids.
We don’t have kids (and won’t be, in light of the current economy) and my husband’s stable job is here, but i also am so depressed and wish I could leave. We also just bought a house.
Why would you hold off having kids.
That doesn't make sense, especially if you are looking at a situation where one patent might be home for a few years.
Why have kids when there are no jobs?
Do you understand what the unemployment rate is? It does not seem like it.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:24
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
These are all shitty firms
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:19
Subject: Re:Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can’t get rid of feds themselves (which they’re having trouble doing) this seems like an easier way to cut. I’m getting more and more depressed and would leave this area if it weren’t for our kids.
We don’t have kids (and won’t be, in light of the current economy) and my husband’s stable job is here, but i also am so depressed and wish I could leave. We also just bought a house.
Why would you hold off having kids.
That doesn't make sense, especially if you are looking at a situation where one patent might be home for a few years.
Why have kids when there are no jobs?
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:17
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:I was talking to an old colleague of mine who owns a contracting firm. His opinion is that longer term, everything will be privatized. So there may be immediate contract cuts but they will be back long term.
In a way it kind of makes sense. I’ve heard horror stories about how hard it is to get rid of lousy Feds. In the private sector, it’s much easier to fire an employee or (as we’ve seen) just cut the contract.
You've been brainwashed to blame the employees. When weather is privatized, a Trump donor will benefit financially.
This is about giving more money to rich people like the owner of Accuweather.
This is about giving contracts to the rich--like Elon.
Privatizing just means giving fewer benefits, making people work those 120-hour weeks Elon loves so much, and stripping the US for parts.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:16
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:The grift is over, folks.
Oh, it's just beginning.
Elon to take over air traffic.
Elon to take over weather satellites.
Elon to take over cybertrucks for State Department.
Elon to take over...
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:14
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Will all of these companies just go under?
Yes.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:11
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
You have been lied to. There is no corruption in the US fed gov. Layers of audits track every tax dollar, which is why the gov is so inefficient. There is some grift and incompetence, yes, but not corruption. Going foward, I expect there will be more corruption, but I doubt the grift and incompetence will go away.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The grift is over, folks.
The era of competence and service delivery is over. The era of corruption, grift, and catastrophic vicious incompetence is upon us.
I think you go it backwards.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:06
Subject: Re:Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can’t get rid of feds themselves (which they’re having trouble doing) this seems like an easier way to cut. I’m getting more and more depressed and would leave this area if it weren’t for our kids.
We don’t have kids (and won’t be, in light of the current economy) and my husband’s stable job is here, but i also am so depressed and wish I could leave. We also just bought a house.
Why would you hold off having kids.
That doesn't make sense, especially if you are looking at a situation where one patent might be home for a few years.
Uh, I have two amazing kids, and every day lately, I look at their happy little selves and feel so much grief about the country we are leaving them.
I really wanted kids, too. I despise everyone who voted for this who has taken that away from me. I will never get to have a family thanks to this administration. It’s horrible.
You will never have a family if that is what YOU choose. No one else is responsible for that choice but you.
Why the hell would you bring kids into a world where we’ll all be living on the streets and in breadlines due to another Great Depression….
I guess this is Darwinism.
+1. I don’t want such mentally fragile people to raise the next generation anyway! Parenting requires some level of resiliency and optimism, so they are better off being childless.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:04
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:The most funny thing is that the people who are complaining how bad things are now, seem to completely ignore the fact that millions are trying to come to USA facing untold obstacles and risking death. It does not add up!!
They are trying to come to the old America. Is the premise of your argument that because people are trying to escape other crappy countries, we should just shut up and accept that an unelected billionaire bought our government? That is a false equivalency.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 14:01
Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The grift is over, folks.
The grift is just beginning. Wait and see how many things only Elon's company can provide.
This!
Anonymous
02/28/2025 13:51
Subject: Re:Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can’t get rid of feds themselves (which they’re having trouble doing) this seems like an easier way to cut. I’m getting more and more depressed and would leave this area if it weren’t for our kids.
We don’t have kids (and won’t be, in light of the current economy) and my husband’s stable job is here, but i also am so depressed and wish I could leave. We also just bought a house.
Why would you hold off having kids.
That doesn't make sense, especially if you are looking at a situation where one patent might be home for a few years.
Uh, I have two amazing kids, and every day lately, I look at their happy little selves and feel so much grief about the country we are leaving them.
I really wanted kids, too. I despise everyone who voted for this who has taken that away from me. I will never get to have a family thanks to this administration. It’s horrible.
You will never have a family if that is what YOU choose. No one else is responsible for that choice but you.
Why the hell would you bring kids into a world where we’ll all be living on the streets and in breadlines due to another Great Depression….
I guess this is Darwinism.
Anonymous
02/28/2025 13:43
Subject: Re:Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can’t get rid of feds themselves (which they’re having trouble doing) this seems like an easier way to cut. I’m getting more and more depressed and would leave this area if it weren’t for our kids.
We don’t have kids (and won’t be, in light of the current economy) and my husband’s stable job is here, but i also am so depressed and wish I could leave. We also just bought a house.
Why would you hold off having kids.
That doesn't make sense, especially if you are looking at a situation where one patent might be home for a few years.
Uh, I have two amazing kids, and every day lately, I look at their happy little selves and feel so much grief about the country we are leaving them.
I really wanted kids, too. I despise everyone who voted for this who has taken that away from me. I will never get to have a family thanks to this administration. It’s horrible.
You will never have a family if that is what YOU choose. No one else is responsible for that choice but you.
This, now is a good time given child care cost.
We are like Russia. Every time the government cracks down the birth rate falls.