Bush administration labor department faked savings to privatize government jobs

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.

The effort was called "competitive sourcing," aimed to increase government efficiency by having federal and private organizations compete for providing services. While part of a federal government approach since 1955, the Bush Administration has made the approach a key element of the President's Management Agenda under the Office of Management and Budget.

An investigation revealed, however, that the Labor Department -- under direction from Bush budget officials -- deliberately withheld information about true costs.

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Well this is nice to hear, the Bush Administration lied to Congress in order to let jobs be outsourced instead of the *snip* government having to do it's job.

[edit on 25-11-2008 by baseball101]

I would think this qualifies as a crime, no?

Someone must have been responsible for the submission of this information.

The GAO certainly has regulations regarding the correctness and completeness of all information submitted by any agency, or does it?

I guess they don't have to be honest.

Shocker!