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Hillary: I’ll Terminate Federal Contractors
Sen. Hillary Clinton said that as president she would sharply curtail the outsourcing of government functions to the private sector and eliminate as many as half a million federal contracting jobs.
The move would save taxpayers between $10 billion and $18 billion a year, Clinton said in a speech at the Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
"I propose we eliminate 500,000 government contracting positions . . . and that we insist on competitive bidding for the remaining contracts,” Clinton declared. The New York Democrat criticized the Bush administration’s reliance on the private sector for a wide range of tasks, including security in Iraq, charging that federal outsourcing programs are plagued with waste and lack oversight. "All too often, this administration has handed out government contracts without even shopping around for the best price,” she said in her speech, which was posted on her Web site.
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"There has been an explosion in no-bid contracting, with almost half of the $329 billion spent on federal contracts being done now on a no-bid basis. The result is fraud, waste, and abuse everywhere from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Gulf Coast . . . "Some contract employees cost twice as much as comparable federal workers. They’re often less accountable and less competent.”
Bush administration officials say the outsourcing of jobs, especially in tech positions, is essential to offset a looming worker shortage, Information Week reported. The shortage is due in large part to the retiring of many government employees.
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