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Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts—a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy appears to have tipped over into paranoia and self-delusion.

Translation:  Americans are incapable of providing good work at a fair price.

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a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts—a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers.

If it is feasible to oursource government contracts (for maybe one fifth of American wages), it is feasible to outsource every single government job, from the top down the the lowliest janitor, and even further down to public school teachers. Taxes could immediately be cut to one fifth their current level across the board.

Who would object most loudly, and why?

It would be the people already working in government, who have already been outsourcing the work to be done. Government has shown the highest increases of employment and the highest increases in per capita income (over 6% nationwide) during this "recovery". Increase in per capita income in the private sector has been around 0.2% according to the tables on the BEA website.

Our government is working hard to benefit foreign competition, and using taxpayer funds to accomplish our own destruction.