{"id":192685,"date":"2009-03-05T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/05\/overhauling-government-contracting\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:45:00","slug":"overhauling-government-contracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/05\/overhauling-government-contracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Overhauling Government Contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The free market mousketeers have been claiming for some time that outsourcing to the private sector gets better services for less, and that is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s order of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/05\/us\/politics\/05obama.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">comprehensive review of government contracting processes<\/a>, along with his directive that &#8220;inherently governmental&#8221; functions remain in government is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> good step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is long overdue. The free market mousketeers have been claiming for some time that outsourcing to the private sector gets better services for less, and that is a lie. Obama&#8217;s order of a comprehensive review of government contracting processes, along with his directive that &#8220;inherently governmental&#8221; functions remain in government is a very good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}