Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers

ideonexus writes "Last month an article appeared on Slashdot about how the government pays IT contractors twice what it pays its own workers. Missing from the article was how much the IT contractor pays its own workers. After working for a federal contractor for 10 years, a document accidentally leaked to employees by the contractor illustrated the incredible disparity between what the contractor was paying us and what they were charging the government. Like most contracts according to the GAO, the government provided our offices, utilities, computers, and training, leaving our salaries as the only overhead to the IT contractor, giving them an incredible incentive to keep them as low as possible to maximize profits. When the top 100 defense contractors cost taxpayers $306 billion, eliminating the federal contractor middle-man seems like an obvious place to start the austerity measures."

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Re:They're impossible to fire

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Again, if you are a person of the dominant culture and the dominant gender, and you fire a person of color or of gender, you are at fault. Period. This ridiculous "color-blindness" you seem to have is a symptom of teabaggism. Face the facts: there is no such thing as being color-blind, it is only a cover for keeping coloreds out. Decades of jurisprudence back this viewpoint. I suggest you attain a position of power in the federal government and then behave like you suggest. Good luck to you, racist! The rest of us will be cheering while you are eviscerated by lawyers and tossed out on the pavement. Thus always to tyrants (and closet right-wingers like you).