Hmmmm, how's this for a simple rule that would change everything

[1-Old-Man]

How about this: No Government Agency have more people employed under contract than it has Federal employees on its own payroll, or better yet, that they can only have a small fraction as many contractors on the payroll as Federal employees.

What would that do? Well, first thing it would do is toss hundreds of thousand of people (contractor employees) into unemployment and the very same moment create a huge increase in the demand for Government employees. Any difference between those two numbers, the number of Contractor employees currently doing the Government's work and the number of Government employees that would be required to continue that work, would be a good indicator for comparison of the efficiency of the two groups and of course be a good pointer to "waste, fraud, and abuse" as well.

Presumably the same people who now work for contractors doing the Government's work would be hired by the Government to continue doing that same work and the only thing we, the taxpayers, would lose would be paying for the management structure and profits of the Contracting companies. I think that would be a good thing; after all if the same work is being done but without the cost of contractor profit aren't we, the taxpayers better off?

[alfie]

1. That has always been my way of thinking...

I want to deal with a person who just wants to get their job done...not a person whose job is to get more money for their bosses.

[geek tragedy]

2. Census Bureau? IRS? nt

[loli phabay]

3. in some ways it would work, for others not. some people would take their

Skillsets overseas unless the fed renumerated them at the rates they get as contractors, but for the majority it would work as long as exceptions where made for the outliers.