Bush Administration puts 850,000 Federal jobs up for private sector bids

Foxnews.com ^ | November 14, 2002 | Associated Press

[Joe Hadenuf]

President Bush plans to open up as many as 850,000 federal jobs to competition from the private sector, administration officials said Thursday

850,000?

I hope this means that there will be only 5,000 people left on the federal payroll.

Or is the answer hundreds of thousands?

[AdamSelene235]

Yes, I noticed.

Remember, I only have to join the John Birch Society if he abolishes the IRS.

Did you catch the op ed piece on Fannie Mae in Tuesday's WSJ. Seems nearly 50% of sharehold equity vanished when they closed their duration gap.

[afz400]

Very good point. We pay Price Waterhouse Coopers (now IBM)$375 an hour for IT support. There are no fed IT workers left and we are at the mercy of these contractors. The answer is not contracting out, but giving managers flexibilty to hire and fire. We are also being ruined by the number of "welfare to work" employees (3,000 so far) who do absolutely nothing all day but eat and talk on the phone.

[MonroeDNA]

Ha ha ha ha haaa!!!!!!

(snicker)

[Willie Green]

This is a duplicate thread.
Before you go into convulsions, you can view my reply #56 here: Bush administration puts 850,000 federal jobs up for private sector bids.

[Temple Owl]

I think Dubya is heading for Mt. Rushmore. Go George!

[mil-vet]

The answer is not contracting out, but giving managers flexibilty to hire and fire.

An oversimplification, perhaps, but you're right!

A great portion the unlevel playing field for the federal organizations when bidding against private contractors IS regarding rules on how to cost out personnel and associated procedures!! Part of this is DEFINITELY the hire-fire flexibility thing!!

Bottom line: Right now, contractors have a tremendous advantage because of the restrictive rules federal folks are required to use when bidding for a "mission", rules which do not apply to the contractors!!

[dcwusmc]

BUMP for NOT saving a dime, nor cutting gooberment a whit.

[Texasforever]

It appears to me that there may be a lot of union guys on this thread given the reaction to reducing government jobs.

[dcwusmc]

Could be. However, I am sure not one of them. I belonged to a union once, when I had no choice in the matter. Never again. However these 850,000 jobs could just go away altogether. Wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit!

[willyone]

The last time I checked military personnel were also Federal employees. Are you going to fire all of them too?

[willyone]

All of out IT workers were CA studied out. Then they hired some back with raises and bonuses. Crane operators that were contracted out now make triple time, standby time and get hazard pay if a ship has weapons onboard even though they are not being moved. They are just onboard. This is a scam which looks good on paper but not in reality. Reductions in force by attrition and redefining jobs would be a better solution.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Uh, I wasn't talking about Military personnel, I was speaking of hundreds of thousands of parasites that are on the government payroll that consume our tax dollars and do nothing but push paper all day.