Today the NY Times begins a series on the growth of government contractors. They seem to be everywhere - collect taxes, prepare budgets, control aircraft drones, take minutes of war policy meetings, protect ambassadors, investigate other contractors. The cost of government contractors has doubled in the Bush administration, but it all started with Clinton's reinvention of government.
Things have reached a state such that less than half of the government contracts are open to competition. Lockheed Corp. gets more federal money than the Department of Energy.
Is this the kind of government we want? Perhaps, we should outsource our representatives.
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