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Technically they are employed by the employement agency they are contracted through. I wonder if vehicles own and operated by the military are included in the count. This would dramatically reduce the demand for a gubmint vehicle by those who probably don't do anything more than drive it to and from work each day, and it would CERTAINLY reduce the impulse for "workers" to use such cars for pleasure driving on the weekend. As a f'rinstance, most of the telephone company vehicles around here have no a/c. And you sure don't see too many of them at the kids' soccer meets on Saturday mornings. Michael 24 3 posted on 04/17/2002 1:31:20 PM PDT by 25 Wright is right! Technically they are employed by the employement agency they are contracted through. I think that the argument here is that only the government employees are performing essential functions that also require the use of a car. Everything else (the "non-essential" stuff) has been farmed out to contract employees. Therefore, one should expect a high vehicle to employee ratio. Squat 80 Post Reply | 81 Private Reply | 82 To 6 | 83 View Replies To: Dallas Not bad. Squat 92 Post Reply | 93 Private Reply | 94 To 13 | 95 View Replies To: Dallas I seriously doubt that significant cost reduction can be achived by reducing the number of cars the Feds have. If the contract workers don't use them, they'll use their own and charge the gubmint twice as much. Someone, perhaps Steve Forbes, observed that Americans keep believing that government can be made more efficient while providing us with all the goodies and services (and more) that it has been providing. Instead of asking why the Department of Agriculture has x number of vehicles, we should be asking why the hell Department of Agriculture has offices in almost every US county, agricultural, urban, desert, lake. Unfortunately, you cannot eliminate a government agency incrementally. Now, how many of the total employees in a government agency are allowed TO USE THE GOVERNMENT VEHICLE? As critical as I am of the federal government, I do have to say something in their defense here. I once worked for the US Attorneys Office in Chicago, so I am familiar with a number of federal employees who drive government cars. FBI and Customs agents that I knew probably had a government car to drive--not all however. DEA usually drove vehicles confiscated from drug dealers. She is allowed a car if she is going out of town on government business--the rest of the time she takes the commuter train back and forth to the federal building like any other peon. Sorry I can't quote numbers like the dim bulb who wrote this article--but yes, from my knowledge working for the feds, this article is a total distortion of reality. Most federal employees are severely restricted in their use of government owned vehicles. Just an another point here--MOST of the employees at any agency are secretaries, clerks and other lower level employees. Anyone who thinks they are driving government cars are smoking the wrong kind of herb. It cost me a significant portion of my monthly pay just to get back and forth to the Dirksen Building. The only gas guzzlers on the street would have been something confiscated by the DEA. Everything else that the government purchased was the cheapest crap they could buy depending on the bids. I have some serious problems with the feds--that's why I quit working there. However, I believe in honest reporting, and the idiot that wrote this article has no idea what he's talking about. Well shucks, seems to me they need to raise our taxes a little more and purchase a few more higher end vehicles. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
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