Outsourcing to save money is a straw man. There are countless stories of large scale failures involving non-consultants as well as very well paid consultants.

Outsourcing to save money is a straw man. There are countless stories of large scale failures involving non-consultants as well as very well paid consultants. I wouldn't call it a straw man. There are more complex mechanics in outsourcing situations. Often outsourcing is not complete. They still keep a handful of inside workers supervising consultants. And often those inside workers are woefully incompetent, ruining the work of "well paid consultants". That happens because the outsourcing only saves those with good connections: the idiot relative of someone with power. I've also heard many managers in the consulting firms telling us to never go out of our way to fix problems. If the customers want it fixed, they must pay more hours. Except of course when the customers get very upset and demand unpaid overtime to reach some arbitrary deadline.