March 20, 2012 — “..... National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley took issue with both the substance and rhetoric in the Republican proposal in her statement Tuesday.
The Republican-proposed reforms could make federal jobs less attractive and a smaller workforce could lead to “a substantial increase in the use of unaccountable private contractors and a much higher cost of providing services,” Kelley said.
“It is almost as though the authors of this budget don’t know, don’t understand or don’t care about the key role federal employees play in helping keep our nation safe, ensuring that our food and medicines are safe and effective, that our air and water are safe, and performing so many other services that people not only expect and want, but need as well,” she said.”......
When did Government employees become accountable????????
Good luck with that!
You could also privatize the FDA and USDA.
““a substantial increase in the use of unaccountable private contractors and a much higher cost of providing services,””
I love this line. There is nothing more unaccountable than a federal employee. Just look at Treasury employees....it’s an established fact that you can get prostitutes on taxpayers dime, ignore your duties to protect the President of the United States, and then lie about it and your punishment is a full retirement.
To the extent that private contractors have a “much higher cost of providing services” it is an incompetent federal employee that is the cause.
If a private contractor is “unaccountable” whose fault is that? A federal employee who is neither competent at their job, nor inclined to work a full day to become proficient.
The lies, the deceit, the incompetence never ends. The only way to reduce the liars in government is to make sure there are numerically fewer - hopefully drastically so - federal employees.
As a former federal manager, bring on the contractors, at least you can fire them quickly.