Clinton assails outsourcing

Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said she favors reducing the government’s reliance on the private sector by cutting 500,000 government contracting jobs and creating more public-sector jobs. Her proposal could save as much as $18 billion a year and would create a more accountable and competent workforce, she said in a speech April 13.

“Over the past six years, this administration has steadily outsourced critical government functions to private companies, adding more than 2.4 million private contractors to the federal payroll,” Clinton said. “These contractors, it turns out, are often more expensive than doing the work in the government.… They’re often less accountable and less competent.”

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