Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs

The Raw Story | Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs:

"President George W. Bush's Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.

The report (pdf here) found that the Department used fictional projected numbers to improve 'savings reports' -- even when real numbers were already available. And when the government did find private firms to take a government job, that employee generally was either reassigned to another task with the same title or promoted"