Those lowest-paid "contract employees" are actually government employees, but for the intervention of another blood-sucking company hired to exploit workers when government employment protections are circumvented.

On shore. It was a long and rigorous process requiring a huge study and many, many reports identifying costs, expenses and time studies. Everything had to be identified and quantified from pens, to labor, to equipment.

Every single report clearly indicated it would cost more to contract out because you were adding a middle man to the equation that needed to make a profit. No exception. And yet they went ahead and contracted out all those jobs anyway. What a waste of time.

Contracting out is just a way for some rich white male campaign donor to make a fortune off our tax dollars.

As I'm sure you read in the article, 1300 employees went without pay after the 2013 Ted Cruz shutdown; it ain't "Bullsh*t" to them

On the policy of reclassifying employees as contract labor. They are actually employees, but for clever and liberal reclassification in tax law.

That way, contractors can extract money from the government to do government work performed better and more efficiently, in many cases, by direct employees of the government.

Those 1300 who lost pay are actually employees and also deserve back pay, except for the intervention of a middleman to exploit the least-able to represent themselves in employment situations.

It's the flipside of the same corrupt system that paid an American contractor in Iraq $100,000 for work paid to an American soldier for $60,000.

I call it PROFITIZATION!

If we parse words the way R's do, we should all start using Profitization.

btw love your logo the first real paycheck I got after coming to the US was from the Chicago Cubs org. I also learned how to drive in Chicago

They are illegally performing work (personnel services) and acting as a government agent.


They should write a bill forcing their COMPANY to pay them.

And while the M$M focused on the national parks and the overflowing trash, they showed their most lazy selves by ignoring the contractors that were normally the ones that clean that trash (not the civil service workers).

There are probably twice as many government contractors working in government offices than actual civil service workers - and a good number of them were contracted by GSA for building maintenance/cleaning/security and in some cases, food services. And sadly, which I know was the case for several federal buildings here in the Philly area, those contractors were supplied from organizations who employed special needs individuals - i.e., private industry refused to hire them but Uncle Sam WILL and DID.