Obama Pledges Public Works on Vast Scale
On NPR, they've been talking about how, in the effort to "make government smaller," there has been a big increase in hiring contractors to do jobs that used to be government jobs. Military contracts are the obvious ones, but they have started to hire private companies to collect taxes and even manage government programs. Usually, though, there is no way to tell if they're doing a good job, or even how many people they have hired. And they can't get rid of these contractors since they no longer have enough government employees to do the jobs. Furthermore, nobody really wants to hire government employees because they don't want to be seen as proponents of big governments. This is obviously a stupid line of reasoning, but such is the state of things. Maybe Obama is willing to buck this trend, though?
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