Federal Gov't DoD Procurement Insourcing Directive & Minority Owned/ Small Businesses

I am not trying to spam anything. I am truly concerned with this and I know if I put it on only one site...I am less likely to get a response. It is a very important topic, but apparently no one cares about it.

That is just what I am worried about....No one knows anything about this. What is even more scary....No one cares to know about it. All I am trying to do is get people thinking. I know I am just one person against EVERYONE, but I am doing all I know to do: talk about it and hope that someone will be as concerned as I am.

No. They need to save money. Insourcing 30,000+ jobs is not how they are going to save money though. The directive says that is it is in place to save the government money. Really they are spending more money to insource these jobs than they would be to just leave them alone.

If you think about it, with small businesses out there, you have more people paying taxes. When you take the small businesses away, you have less people paying taxes, which means less money being brought into the government and how do they normally “fix” that problem: raise the taxes for everyone else. How is that saving money for the government?

Yes!!! This is true! I have research to prove it if you would like to see it!!!

The first thing that was said when the insourcing directive came into play at the DoD: that this was being done to save money. Now, if the subject of money and savings is addressed when it comes to insourcing, the subject is promptly changed because they know that they are digging themselves into an even deeper hole.

If you don't want to look at the taxation portion of plan

then look at the realistic portion of the plan: how are they going to be saving money when they have to pay salary to the thousands of new employees,

provide quality insurance for each employee and their families, provide a place for all of them to work, pay for added expenses, training, etc.
It would be better for the government to simply leave all of these jobs outsourced.

Let me say though, if there is a contractor who is abusing the position that they hold in the contract, the problem with that specific contractor should be handled. Not a punishment enforced on ALL private sector contractors/ small businesses and ultimately the rest of the american people.

Industry groups, which had criticized the department's insourcing agenda as capricious and poorly implemented, were pleased with Defense's decision to end the initiative,

It hasn't ended. This is another article on the same topic. All that Secretary Gates is saying is that it isn't going to save money like they had originally stated. The insourcing initiative is still out there and being put into affect.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0510/050410rb1.htm

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