Chimpy the Privateer sold off as much of this Government as he could get his monkey hands on to private firms. He did this to enrich his cronies, of course, but he had the backing of a lot of idiots who claim that private enterprise just ALWAYS works better than that inefficient GUBMINT!

We’ve cited countless examples of this lie-the VA healthcare system gave us Walter Reed’s Roach Motel after privatization, Texas and Indiana now have huge headaches with their highway systems that didn’t use to exist, incarcerated people are abused, beaten, neglected, and left to die, private firms are paying off Government officials by the trainload to get business steered towards them…. the list goes on and on.

Perhaps the one place where privateers have held sway more than any other in the last few years is in the so-called Defense Department. Before Chimpy, we had a recognizable defense apparatus. After the moronic monkey got through, of course, what we had was a mercenary cash cow.

And it’s costing us plenty.

The Defense Department estimates it will save an average of $44,000 a year for every contractor it replaces with full-time federal personnel to perform critical defense jobs, according to the House-Senate conference report on the fiscal 2010 defense appropriation bill.

The measure, which passed Congress on Saturday, contains $5 billion to hire replacements for contractors currently performing what have been termed “inherently government functions” both at home and abroad. Those functions include a wide range of activities, from supervising other contractors who provide guard services at forward operating bases, to providing oversight of aid projects overseas.

The Bush administration widely expanded the use of contractors following the invasion of Iraq. At the time, officials argued that the Pentagon and other agencies had to staff up quickly; the war was seen as a limited operation that would end quickly, without the need to either increase the size of the military or the ranks of civilian employees.

The aim was also to save money, but last year Congress reported that contract employees were each costing the government an average of $250,000 annually, an amount far in excess of what federal employees or military personnel were paid.

A recent Congressional Research Service study acknowledged that contractors played an important role in Iraq, but also indicated that they make up more than half of the Pentagon’s personnel in Afghanistan. With the number of U.S. troops expected to increase by 30,000 in Afghanistan in the coming months, CRS estimated that the number of contractors there will also increase — by up to 56,000.

Although the fiscal 2010 defense appropriation bill provides $5 billion to allow defense personnel, rather than contractors, to perform critical department functions, there was no estimate available Wednesday on how many new defense employees will be hired with that money.

You and I aren’t surprised, of course, but the “teabagger” idiots would just be beside themselves if you were ever to suggest to them that the mean old Gubmint can actually do it better in a lot of cases.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…. inbreeding is doing society a tremendous amount of harm. Let’s tighten up the laws now, so the morons who support stupid shit like privatizing everything die out in a couple of generations.

Tags: bush, defense, failure, privatization, rushpubliscums, theft

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