http://insidehpc.com/2007/04/24/kickback-scandal/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2007/04/24/kickback-scandal/#comment-791 Christopher C. Aycock Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:48:52 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/04/24/kickback-scandal/#comment-791 I'm just stunned at the sheer volume of names on that list. Makes me wonder how many of Accenture's non-government clients were also duped into buying bribed machines. I’m just stunned at the sheer volume of names on that list. Makes me wonder how many of Accenture’s non-government clients were also duped into buying bribed machines.

]]> http://insidehpc.com/2007/04/24/kickback-scandal/#comment-786 Dave Nahmias Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:23:54 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/04/24/kickback-scandal/#comment-786 I have been in Federal Sales for almost 25 years and what we have today is the true "Reagan Legacy". In order to justify cutting taxes, he needed to cut government, to cut government he had to paint it with the brush of incompetence and waste. In order to cure the waste, he demanded more and more services be outsourced. Today there is almost no government in government. It is contractors monitoring other contractors. Sure prior to Reagan, there were plenty of non-motivated government workers, but there were also used to be plenty of people who joined the government to help others - it used to be called public service. Contractors have only one master - the dollar, they have no impetus to do anything but increase profits. As powerful as the marketplace is, it doesn't solve all problems and is proving to create a very poorly run, expensive government. I have been in Federal Sales for almost 25 years and what we have today is the true “Reagan Legacy”. In order to justify cutting taxes, he needed to cut government, to cut government he had to paint it with the brush of incompetence and waste. In order to cure the waste, he demanded more and more services be outsourced.
Today there is almost no government in government. It is contractors monitoring other contractors. Sure prior to Reagan, there were plenty of non-motivated government workers, but there were also used to be plenty of people who joined the government to help others – it used to be called public service.
Contractors have only one master – the dollar, they have no impetus to do anything but increase profits. As powerful as the marketplace is, it doesn’t solve all problems and is proving to create a very poorly run, expensive government.

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