20,000 new government employees.

Pentagon to create 20,000 jobs to manage arms buys

Wed May 6, 2009 4:26pm EDT

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By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Defense Department plans to create 20,000 new government jobs to help revise how it buys more than $100 billion of weapons each year, the Pentagon's No. 2 official told Congress.

The Pentagon also plans to tie contract fees more closely to performance and make deals spanning two years, or more, only when "real, substantial" savings result to taxpayers, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told the House of Representatives Armhttp://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE54545N20090506?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=trueed Services Committee on Wednesday.

Kliphnote: What happened to a leaner government?
You don't do that by hiring 20,000 employees.
Unless that was your plan from the get go.
And is to make government bigger.