Re: outsourcing the State redux

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, May 30, 2003 at 08:16:47 (-0700) Ian Murray writes:
>...
>Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. and
>Angela Styles, administrator of OMB's office of federal procurement
>policy, unveiled the revised policy, which they said was designed to
>shorten and streamline the process to require competition for government
>work and eventually save taxpayers' money.
>
>But officials of federal employees labor unions denounced the changes,
>saying they granted far too much discretion to government managers and
>would be aggressively used by the administration to pursue President
>Bush's agenda to "outsource" as much government work as possible to
>private contractors.
>...

Why do they accept the premise?  Generally, farming out to private
profit-making firms is going to cost more money for taxpayers.  Health
care coverage is one glaring example and there are many more.

Yet more race-to-the-bottom politics for workers.


Bill