"What political ideologies need to feed off unbridled government growth and control of every aspect of your life?"

To answer your question, IMHO, the Progressive's ideologies.

If the Air Force hires djplong and the job he was doing for a private sector contractor becomes a public sector job, djplong and Progressives say, "the government will save a LARGE amount of money". With all due respect and absolutely no offense intended; but to make my point, it is wonderful for djplong. But what about the larger picture?

Is it logical to compare contractor billing rates with civil service salaries? The comparison should be between the billing rates and the total weighted salaries of the government employees, which includes better benefits, lifetime employment, etc.

It may save the government "LARGE" amounts of monies, but turning private sector jobs into public sector jobs is the opposite of the theory of trickle-down economics and only serves to move along the Progressive agenda of redistribution of wealth and growing federal unions. It only makes government bigger and allows for more people feeding out of the taxpayers' trough and helps eliminate a contractor, upper management jobs, secretaries, payroll jobs, janitors, etc.

If contractors have the skills government employees don't have, it is cheaper to hire contractors for the short term.

According to a Feb. 8, 2010, article from MySanantonio Business ["U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates set a goal last April `to decrease funding for contract support' and to hire 33,400 civilian workers over the next five years, 10,000 of them for the Defense Department's “acquisition work force,” according to a Defense Department memo dated May 28, 2009.]

"Gates' directive stems from President Barack Obama's March 4, 2009, government contracting memo ordering 'inherently governmental' functions and those closely associated with inherently governmental functions be performed by government personnel and not by contractor personnel."

A San Antonio attorney has actually filed a lawsuit in the western district federal court in Texas to stop Edwards Air Force Base in California from terminating a contractor who provides audiovisual services to the AFB. The lawsuit alleges the government is doing fuzzy math on the savings of making private sector jobs public.