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To: TimF who wrote (12939)	5/15/2002 1:50:42 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) of 21057

"Will the problem at the Pentagon stop? Maybe, maybe not." Maybe if they find some productive private companies to do the work rather than the unproductive private companies that are now thought to have cost them millions in mismanagement, waste, and fraud (such as American Management Systems Inc.). "I still say they are less productive" And you are still wrong... Criticising the Government is well and good. Criticising specific programs is likewise an intelligent and democratic response. But making generalizations of a disparaging nature against public sector employees which directly judge their character and work habits in a way which makes them second-class is simply opportunistic contumely. Judging the value of any particular public agency or private business is fair and intelligent. Judging the value or the productivity of a particular named worker in public or private industry is likewise condign--they may then challenge your remarks, and defend against what is slanderous or untrue. But how do individuals in a group defend their dignity against your haughty generalizing?? Criticising a particular business or agency (for example: "American Management Systems Inc.") is likewise just--as it is specific, frontal, and does not accuse ALL the employees of that private company with associated incompetence or guilt. Do you think the Pentagon is an unneccesary agency, or do you just wish they would do business with more competent private companies? Should they sue AMS and any other companies identified as incompetent or unproductive...or should they simply issue a new tender? What do you think is the best way to deal with incompetence and unproductivity? Ought they to force such contractors to work under the aegis of supervision by an employee beholden to the public interest? Do you believe that AMS and the others were simply being mismanaged and unproductive, or do you think these qualities were engendered by fraud and dishonesty?

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