This is why the next Republican President needs to do an 80-100% RIF (Reduction In Force) of civil servants across ALL Federal agencies.
This is ABSOLUTEY REQUIRED to put the Federal budget back in the black as well as to root out the leftists and corrupt officials put in place by democrat administrations.
To give you an example that I have personal knowledge of: At one federal agency where I was a contractor, ALL of the procurement personnel (civil servants and Senior Executive Service) and local Small Business Administration personnnel (civil servants and SES) were DEMOCRATS. Only democrat contractors got contracts at that federal agency. The fed employees and SBA made millionaires out of the contractors who dutifully kicked back millions in donations and “volunteer” employees to the democrat party and politicians.
Bush did not put a stop to this. The same democrat civil servants kept handing out lucrative contracts to the same millionaire contractors.
This is the kind of DEEPLY ENTRENCHED CORRUPTION that President Palin needs to root out and prosecute.
Any critical function of the federal government can be procured more cheaply from the private sector. Each agency needs a small core of UNBIASED, UNCORRUPTIBLE procurement officials to handle contracting.
For my next job, I want to be the Inspector General for a large agency.
Good luck with that.