In <447d1a7ef45bbd4182759ac6f766911301682...@doittmail04.doitt.nycnet>, on
12/19/2008
at 09:47 AM, "Barkow, Eileen" <[email protected]> said:
>And the scenario for hiring that you mentioned is only for those nasty
>people who occupy a place in the official payroll that the politicians
>are always trying to cut. What they do not mention is that there is an
>un-official payroll embedded in the cost of supplies like paper clips
>from which they can hire $2000/day consultants and other per diems
>without spending any money from the 'payroll' and thereby can cut costs
>by downsizing the number of employees actually working for the
>city.
If the Federal government can get away with creative bookkeeping, why not
local governments. We need a constitutional amendment to require the
executive and legislative branches, at all level, to count contractor
personnel.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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