t r u t h o u t | President Obama's Timid Use of the "Reset Button"

t r u t h o u t | President Obama's Timid Use of the "Reset Button"

The reason the cost of foreign and military activities has gone up so much is that so much of the work is outsourced under contracts which it is hard to break (and hard to break the relationships) over time. The more dependent on private contractors we become, the more expensive it gets and the longer the dependency will continue.

If you stop to think about it, outsourcing of government functions (combined with the costs of purchasing military equipment) amounts to nothing but a stimulus package far exceeding the one Obama passed. Were it not for government money, all these businesses would sink and leave a lot of people unemployed.

If stimulus is okay for functions like these, why is it not okay for functions which have a productive (as opposed to destructive) result?