Capitol Hill seems to be filled with elected Casablanca Captain Renaults, absolute hypocrites like Lieberman and Collins who are "astounded" that contractors outnumber full time federal work force at the Department of Homeland Security.

From CNN: "The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable."

"Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and ranking Republican Susan Collins said they were "astounded" to learn there are more than 200,000 contractor employees at the department.

"The civilian work force of Homeland Security numbers 188,000, according to an estimate provided to the senators by Homeland Security.

"In a letter sent Tuesday to the agency's Secretary Janet Napolitano, Lieberman and Collins said the figure "raises the question of whether DHS itself is in charge of its programs and policies, or whether it inappropriately has ceded core decisions to contractors."

Who the hell increased exponentially the number of private contractors who proceed to rip off the government?  GOP regimes who handed a no questioned asked cash cow to their cronies.

The criminal Bush regime's goal was to privatize government; another way of enabling crony contractors to make out like bandits doing work for the government more expensively and often less effectively than utilizing more economical, experienced Civil Service employees.

A great portion of US intelligence is outsourced to private companies with no public accountability.  In fact, "the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] found that 'those same contractors recruiit our own employees, already cleared and trained at government expense, and then 'lease' them back to us at considerably greater expense."

Look at the terrible problems caused and crimes committed by Pentagon, State, and other departments and agencies' reliance on unaccountable private mercenary companies like Blackwater now Xe have resulted in crimes committed by these same so called "security" corporations.

Unfortunately, many of these contractors are a part of Washington's revolving door, including former high ranking military double dipping at the government trough while receiving a generous pension and health care coverage and other benefits.

Government's massive utilization of contractors has become a scandalous scam and fraud; and they are more expensive (those ubiquitous cost plus contracts are infamous) and more often much less effectual than Civil Service workers; a losing situation for regular hardworking Americans.

Time to end this fraud and horrific waste of taxpayers' hard earned money.