And they say there is nothing to cut in the budget
...why should they make any cuts?? The military has offered almost enough cuts for anyone!! Sweet!
Sarc.
You said it. As much waste there is in federal agencies, the federal contract "industrial complex" is 10 degrees worse. We saw a glimpse of this with the ObamaCare website, but that is nothing.
The federal contracts for administering applications for ObamaCare is wrought with waste. Three separate offices around the country doing separate jobs. Easily, 1/3 of the employees in one office could get the job done. THEN, most federal contracts have 8(a) set asides. This is were the winner of the contract has to sub-contract a minority or women owned business.
I know employees of Federal Contractor who were told to slow down the work. The reason, Federal contracts are Cost plus contracts. There is no, zero, nada incentive for the contractor to do work smarter, cheaper or faster because that will reduce the value of the contract- the "plus" to the cost plus". This outing doesn't surprise me, these guys are probably bored out of there minds and have nothing better to do.
At the end of last year, my company discovered how IT can enable cost cutting. If you were streaming video from Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus and other sites and you weren’t on travel after 8 PM (AKA, watching TV via work laptop while in the hotel), you were identified and fired.
Nothing says expendable like someone with hours of Amazon streaming TV at their desktop during business hours.