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Contractors are here to stay
By Florence Olsen
Published on April 14, 2008
When presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) declared in 2007 that she would eliminate 500,000 federal contractors if elected president, some policy experts said she couldn’t do it. One of those experts was Steven Schooner, senior associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor of law at George Washington University.
Whether the federal government relies too much on contractors is an interesting — but irrelevant — philosophical, public policy and moral question, Schooner said in an interview.
“The reason it is irrelevant is we have engaged now for more than a generation in a bipartisan legislative and executive effort to create the appearance of a small government,” Schooner said. “We all know that government hasn’t gotten smaller.” (more…)