CONTRACTOR CHUTZPAH
CHUTZPAH-Definition: Nerve, Gall, Audacity. Private contractors doing government work are a lot of things. They are often more expensive than government, they are notorious for missing deadlines, and they have no shame about taking government work paid for by our country’s income tax collections and shipping some citizen’s income-producing job overseas. Yup! Contractors bring a lot of things to government, and another thing they bring is chutzpah. Despite shouting from the rooftops, soapboxes, and campaign contribution pedestals that they are cheaper than government, they just insisted on and got the right to increase what they charge the feds for the executives’ time from an annual rate of $693,951. To $763,029. That is almost four times what the top SES folks and cabinet officials earn a year to lead entire agencies. Continue reading