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Originally Posted by Guest
Explain to me what is bad about cutting totally useless programs that benefits no one except the one who got it passed. We really need to know how shrimp mate (at taxpayer expense)???
Keep jobs for those that are actually already doing the work and eliminate the slackers. Believe me, we had plenty in the government contracted company where I worked. I have seen it first-hand. We had one guy who used to walk around with a paint bucket in his hand all day. Took time out for breaks and lunch. First in line to clock out. Never, ever saw him applying paint to anything! One of our clerks would go through the in basket and take all the easy tasks for herself, leaving the harder jobs for the rest of us. If an emergency job came in, before the supervisor could get it assigned, she magically was in the restroom, hand-delivering finished work, etc. I could go on and on, but you should get the picture by now.
Some like Boeing think that just because it is for the government, that it is an open checkbook. Trump is trying to monitor those checkbooks and rein in the unchecked spending. Why is that a problem?
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I worked for the Feds for over 30 years, your examples are not the norm.
Since you say you were a govt contractor or worked for them I can tell you first hand that the government contractors come to work for the fed agency, get trained by the gov workers, then get paid on most cases 2X or 3X the amount for doing the same job, then after a couple years when the contract expires the contractor hikes his prices, is undercut, and the process is repeated. This happened over and over and over, especially in the IT field.