Reply #6: Contracting out is not inherently bad

[Solo_in_MD]

It depends what gets sent out...

Commercially available goods and services should be bought and not done in house unless it makes economic sense. Contracting out decision authority on the other hand is a bad thing (and against the law). It is the out contracting that supports UARCs and other ways to bring in academics and other outsiders into Government procurements.

Gore was not the only guy trying to tame the bureaucracy, it started before he was VP and is still on going. The result is a dramatic downsizing in the DoD and elsewhere within the Federal Gov. Not downplaying his role, he was a strong support of greater efficiency, but he was no more the primary source for it than he was the inventor of the internet. Oddly enough, one of biggest supporters these days for some of the things Gore was pushing is Rummie