Community | November 26, 2008 | 5 comments

Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs

source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_Labor_Department_misled_Congress_in_1125.html

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President George W. Bush's Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.

The report (pdf here) found that the Department used fictional projected numbers to improve "savings reports" -- even when real numbers were already available. And when the government did find private firms to take a government job, that employee generally was either reassigned to another task with the same title or promoted.
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5 comments // Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs

  • idealist
  • uppityprogressive
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      uppityprogressive  
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    • Unfortunately, a subscription is needed to read the article online, I read it at my local grocery store.

      Premise: A nation of laws must prosecute, investigations will take place, it will take time to do it thoroughly, but prosecutions will follow and become distant from the political fray in the process.

      Interesting thought.

      Fits with Ravi Batra's premise that we are entering a period of exposure of the corruption we have been oppressed with for the last 30 years or so, and the exposure will motivate a voters revolution during which our entire economic and political systems will be recreated in a new and populist way. Thus the beginning of the new Golden Age!

      Which fits with Stephen Pimpare's concept from his book "A People's History of Poverty in America", who writes that the oppressive Victorian/Robber Barron age is mirrored by the hateful Republican Revolution/Free Trade era, during both of which the poor were demonized and blamed for 'moral failure' causing their own miseries.

      Happily, the Victorian oppression was followed as a popular response, by the Progressive Era....Lets do that again!

    • 3 years ago
  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • Hah forget it. These people look out for each other. The only justice left in this country is in the old Perry Mason re-runs.

    • 3 years ago
  • Robroy1
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