hear, hear

There’s a new article in the Washington Monthly making the point that we need federal bureaucrats to manage spending, including spending on private contractors, and that under-staffing the government — which we’re doing already, and will do more of if the right gets its way — actually increases the deficit. I agree. And with perfect timing, we have a new report finding that tens of billions have been wasted on undersupervised contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

that's from krugman --- all of that comes out of the mindset that gummint can't do nothing right --- contractors can do a lot, but just as in the private sector, somebody's gotta be riding herd since there's no getting around the fact that there will always be slackers ---