Federal jobs and services privatized. Are most Americans paying for it?

[Free the Press]

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services resulted in the federal government becoming better at accomplishing its CONSTITUTIONAL goals, as expressed by the various federal laws and charters of the various federal departments, agencies, and quasi-governmental agencies?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services really helped most Americans to receive more rewarding and better quality services from the federal government?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services helped the Executive Branch to improve its responses to Congress, in its pursuit of accurate, factual, and truthful information and disclosure, as it carries out its Constitutional mandate to conduct oversight on the Executive Branch?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services actually contributed to a "trickle-down" of greater wealth amongst more and more Americans, as US economic statistics on American per-capita wealth suggest?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services forced most displaced public sector workers, besides lobbyists and in-house corporate "government insider" transplants, to get equal or higher paying private sector jobs and working conditions or to prosper?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services led to most Americans believing that their tax dollars are working better and more on their behalf?

Has massive privatization of federal jobs and services resulted in corporations doing more for less for American taxpayers?

Has the Republican led political movement to privatize federal services and employees actually cost the treasury and the average American "more for less?"

You be the judge. Good Luck.

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These are merely some very generalized links to related information:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=federal+jobs+and+services+%22privatized%22&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&lr=&q=federal+jobs+and+services+%22privatized%22&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&lr=&q=privatization+congressional+oversight&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=privatization%2Bcongressional%2Boversight&btnG=Search

[firefox]

1. Somebody might link to paying $145K for recruiting airport guards

[Free the Press]

2. Prior to Transportation Security Administration they were contract guards.

Only after the Congress created the Transportation Security Administration did these security guards become federal employees.

Prior to that, they were paid slave wages by private contract security companies.

Therefore the money allocated for hiring them was strictly payola to * cronies who brought in a bunch of nitwits and Dell PC's and used good old boy networking to staff the newly created supervisory jobs and mangerial jobs.*

The agency was top heavy from the start, in terms of where the money was going - lots of military men got high paying jobs at the top levels of this agency.*

Despite these temporary additions,* the overall number of full-time employees of the federal government is down substantially.

These employees will soon be private contract security guards again.

Some airports have already received exemptions from the TSA that allow these workers to become contract security guards again.

When the TSA was created, it was widely expected to become a temporary agency, and thus it required Congressional renewal.

Though this agency was moved from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security, its remains a temporary agency.

Republicans are very opposed to creation of federal jobs.

These jobs were only reluctantly agreed to by them, when the Congress legislated an expiration date for the agency.

http://www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=7

*edited for one more comment and a typo.

[firefox]

4. There was recruiting firm that made 145K for each employee hired nt

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Privatization is a GOP ripoff scheme whereby the coffers of the country

are diverted into the pockets of the corrupt, connected cronies. That "government" is inherently bad is another one of the bigs lies successfully foisted off by the rightwing. Al Gore (what a surprise) made a great speech about this very topic one time that I just heard a few snippets of.

We are (or were anyway) a large country with vast wealth and resources and some of those resources and wealth are too large to be handled effectively by a self-serving network of private enterprise. I have always thought that the HUGE areas (which I define as those products and services that a person MUST have in order to live), should have oversight and regulation by the Federal Government.

My categories for this are:
Federal lands and parks
Transportation
Utilities
Healthcare
Education
Shelter (government subsidies towards buildings affordable housing)

People who tout private enterprise always say that free markets will regulate themselves and the consumer is the final arbiter of price/value. The proof that they are wrong is the ENRON California electric grid scandals. They DID NOT regulate themselves, they gamed and conned and scammed the American consumer as much as they possibly could with no brakes due to morality or conscience applied. Real people suffered mightily. Businesses closed, and people lost jobs and homes while the Enron boys high-fived and made jokes about Aunt Millie.

We are being gouged as we speak with plans for higher gougings in the future over gasoline prices. Record profits for the oil industry while Americans cut back and spend less and depress the general economy more.

Healthcare? Prescription medicine? Don't get me started.