White House eyes annual 8% cut to defense budget through 2030

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47. Contractors

This whole thing is designed to contract out government services. They cut government staffs, then when everything goes to crap, they hire contractors. This way they get credit for cutting the "lazy government workers", and later get to spread the wealth to contractors. In general, the contractors cost more.
In 35 years Federal service, including 4 years military, I never saw a single contractor give cost effective, quality service.
If the service was adequate, we paid through the nose.

I am sure there are exceptions, I just never saw any. The contractors in general are driven by the profit motive, not mission accomplishment.

The American people are just not aware that the majority of civil servants are actually trying to do a good job, and they are going to miss them when they are gone