Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics

[SAJ-99]

This they is protected by the law but not bound by it.

The other they is bound by the law but not protected by it.

I would also say the US system was set up on the concept of "norms", almost more than the actual laws. It was not built for a majority in Congress that just wants to collect a check and a guy like Trump who just says "F*@% your norms and rules, I'll do what I want."

 

[BuzzH]

Trump admin attempts to contain blowback from Forest Service 'reorganization'

The U.S. Forest Service is in damage control. Almost two weeks ago, we published an article documenting the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in its 121-year history — the gutting of its headquarters, the elimination of every regional office, and the destruction of the largest...

www.hatchmag.com

 

[hank4elk]

Totally illegal and anti American actions.

 

[sclancy27]

The eventual move is to privatize all these functions across all these federal agencies. 2027 Budget request below. The fire management dominates the funding obligation. Probably easiest to transfer that $5b to private contractors in the name of “efficiency”. Capitalism baby!
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That's been the plan for 40 years. Look at the increase of contracting services. Federal contracts were ~$440 Billion in 2015, estimate for 2025 is ~$830 Billion....That's $6.35 Trillion contracting over the last 10 yrs. We are far better served have government employees do the work (for the most part) than paying a contractor 3-10x (or much more) to do the same work.

 

[BuzzH]

That's been the plan for 40 years. Look at the increase of contracting services. Federal contracts were ~$440 Billion in 2015, estimate for 2025 is ~$830 Billion....That's $6.35 Trillion contracting over the last 10 yrs. We are far better served have government employees do the work (for the most part) than paying a contractor 3-10x (or much more) to do the same work.

On average federal employees make 27% less than equal work in the private sector.

FS pays notorious less than equal work conducted in other federal agencies.

 

[SAJ-99]

That's been the plan for 40 years. Look at the increase of contracting services. Federal contracts were ~$440 Billion in 2015, estimate for 2025 is ~$830 Billion....That's $6.35 Trillion contracting over the last 10 yrs. We are far better served have government employees do the work (for the most part) than paying a contractor 3-10x (or much more) to do the same work.

A major shareholder in Bridger Aerospace would disagree.

 

[Irrelevant]

That's been the plan for 40 years. Look at the increase of contracting services. Federal contracts were ~$440 Billion in 2015, estimate for 2025 is ~$830 Billion....That's $6.35 Trillion contracting over the last 10 yrs. We are far better served have government employees do the work (for the most part) than paying a contractor 3-10x (or much more) to do the same work.

Even if there was some merit to the claims that the private contracted work force is harder working (which it isn't), that perceived benefit doesn't outweigh the fact that contracted employees, by and large, don't care about the job or the resource as much as the actual federal employees do. I want someone who cares to manage my resources.