People in government are not opposed to clean and safe parks, of course, but they often make decisions on the basis of political factors (rewarding certain contractors, providing patronage jobs, etc). The net result is that government involvement is a bad recipe for higher costs and poor perfo...
DOGE is run by Elon Musk, whose businesses include government contractors. Trump has called his pick to lead the OMB, Russell Vought, an “aggressive cost cutter and deregulator.” The memorandum noted that it would not abrogate any collective bargaining agreem...
Let me rephrase that sentence: It is a racket to rip off taxpayers. But let’s be fair. I don’t want to imply that it’s all the fault of the unions. The contractors also buy off the politicians. …the…main engineering firm: WSP USA, …has donated hundreds of thousands to ...
“A hiring freeze at FSIS puts public health at risk by preventing the agency from hiring qualified staff to fill critical roles in our nation’s food safety systems, and forcing them to hire private contractors to fill the gaps,” Walsh said. “With USDA privatization, oversight and acc...
As for public contracting, opponents of Prop 16 argue that introducing affirmative action will cost taxpayers “BILLIONS of dollars,” because the state will reject lowest qualified bidders and in order to choose higher-priced minority- and women-owned contractors. If saving taxpayer dollars is more...
After 16 years running Financial Samurai and another 16 years working traditional jobs and consulting, I have a clear perspective on what it takes to succeed in both. Both require hard work, butentrepreneurship is relentless—there are no days off if you want to survive and grow. ...
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Many of the employees and contractors have near term liquidity issues. How do they pay bills while the open-borders globalists do battle with the do-it-the-right-way nationalists? The Democrat’s now control the House of Representatives and so long as they remain in lock-step, security ...
We can’t solve the problems here, but we’ll try see how the best and the brightest can rebuild in order to do their jobs better. Our issue of the week looks at GSA… that conferences… what happens now… and what it means for contractors…Larry Allen has been following GSA for deca...
widening the definition of the government workforce just as our understanding of work has changed, the workforce is also undergoing a transformation. in the past, governments largely accomplished their missions through the work of permanent employees, complemented by contractors. today, governments are ...