DaButt
Tuesday 17th July 2012 4:47pm
14,722 posts
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 17 2012, 5:33 PM BST
Normally I go along on most things with you DaButt, but here is where you are in the wrong. You are acutally promoting ideological right wing corporate bullcrap instead of acutal real world experiences.
Would you like all of the police in the State of Texas, including the Rangers, who volunteered and take pride in their uniform, to lose their jobs because Rick Perry gave the contracts to Wells Fargo or American Guard Services or any number of rent-a-cop supermarket security guard services because it was more cost effective?
I spent many years working for a company that did work previously reserved for government employees. We did the work better and much cheaply than the government could.
People are people, whether they are government employees or private contractors. They will do whatever their job demands of them, and usually not much more. If a contractor performs more poorly than a similar government worker, then one of the following is true:
1) The terms of the contract are not being fulfilled and the government should penalize the contract holder for failing to fulfill the terms of the contract. If the government is simply "letting them slide" then the public should throw the officials out of office, and perhaps into jail.
or
2) The terms of the contract are insufficient and the public should throw the government officials that agreed to it out of office and into a jail cell.
National defence is the one arena where I'll grudgingly allow the government to do what it does best: solve problems by throwing excessive and wasteful numbers of people and money at them