Posted on 01/10/2008 12:24:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson wants to curb government spending by halting federal hiring.
If elected, Thompson said, he would stop government agencies from acquiring new personnel for one year and his administration would perform senior-level assessments of agency priorities.
“This will give a new administration time to assess its personnel requirements in order to ‘right size’ the federal workforce,” according to a statement posted earlier this week on Thompson’s campaign Web site.
Two other candidates have promised to reshape the federal workforce. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he would not rehire half the positions that will be vacated after the baby boomer retirement wave hits in the next three years. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said she would cut half a million contractors.
Thompson also promised to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of all federal programs in an effort to defund, combine or probate underperforming projects. The issue was spurred by the results of the Office of Management and Budget’s Program Assessment Rating Tool, which found many government programs moderately effective or ineffective.
The Bush administration responded similarly to PART results, eventually issuing an executive order Nov. 13 requiring all agencies to select performance improvement officers to be part of a Performance Improvement Council. The council will be charged with standardizing evaluation criteria, monitoring performance assessments and making policy recommendations.
Thompson has been fighting to get this done since he headed Governmental Affairs in the Senate.
Good for you!
My brother in law is a cartographer. He worked for the USGS (is that right?) for man years. About 400 people worked in his building.
He voted for Gore in 2000! He’s more conservative than I am.
He said the pressure to vote Democrat was intense...one guy had a Bush bumper sticker; his car was vandalized. It was constant...e-mails, flyers let on desks. People would walk around desks, telling others that the Republicans would cut their jobs. He actally believed it, too. He and my sister got scared about it.
Well, guess what: Bush cut out many of the jobs; my brother in law kept his!
He said the waste and lack of production was incredible. Three people did the work of one.
He recently took a job in the private sector providing vendor services to the government. Harder work, but he has incentives and feels good about it.
I won’t paint all government workers with the same brush...you would know more than I. I do contract work for several government agencies and there is a lot of waste and lazy people.
I would never say that about a Freeper, though. Thanks for your hard work.
See post 62 :-)
I am new to Government anyways. I ran my own business for many ears and “retired” awhile back and went into teaching and consulted. Opportunity came up and I took it.
But yes there is waste and some folks I can’t figure what they do. I have seen little in the way of politics, at least the electoral variety.
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