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Originally Posted by Marina
I came into the government from the private sector a few years ago. Two HUGE and disappointing facts I learned:
1. The "overhead" factor is about 30%, that is 30% of employees do nothing - absolutely nothing - even good ones spend 30% of their time slogging through unnecessary bureaucracy caused by the 30% that do nothing. Sadly, the ones that do nothing don't seem to understand what an impediment they are.
2. Like Razor said, want to end a program fast - cut the budget, the number of contractors will immediately drop. So I learned what a knife edge most program offices are on. They fund their contractors by the hour. WTF? Not only can you easily count that, you can easily cut it. It is a complete fallacy that you can't reduce government. Simply stop feeding the beast.
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There is the empire build portion of things, but as you stated, those personnel numbers are not drawn from thin air. Somebody in the H.R. or upper management has the numbers because the appropriations must cover the bodies in the room.
I believe the 30% may be a bit low
But I also think that many of the aimless malingering is because the positions that are being hired to were determined so long ago (during the DHS-can-do-no-wrong phase) and there has been no reassessment. Additonally I have seen at least 3 NEW divisions created directly from Congressional mandate (legislation).
The office of redundant redundancy is up and running finally...