Federal IT Will Survive the Budget Deal

jfruhlinger writes "Like most people in America — and like most government workers in particular — federal IT staffers are wondering how the recent budget deal will affect them. It seems they won't suffer much, for two reasons: there was already a major tech consolidation effort underway, and everyone involved is hoping IT initiatives will result in cost-savings in other areas of government operations. In particular, federal moves to the cloud — which can yield considerable savings, despite a need for up-front investment that deters some shops — will continue."

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Bullshit

[SuperKendall]

There is epic waste in the government. They never fire anyone, leading to useless people remaining and more people hired on to do work the useless ones can't.

You can't offer any evidence either but I know a few people that work in different levels of the federal government and it's true of any of them.

If there really were no waste in the federal government, then please tell me how it is NO ONE got laid off last year? And that they all got raises when the private sector is getting pay cuts?

Your story simply does not add up, even with what the public can see of federal employees at work - where there are usually more than are called for and they work slowly.