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If you want to know why no one in the federal government will take you up on your offer you should read about the Anti-Deficiency Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/
by fpgeek 13y ago
If you want to know why no one in the federal government will take you up on your offer you should read about the Anti-Deficiency Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act
http://www.gao.gov/legal/lawresources/antideficiencybackground.html http://www.gao.gov/legal/lawresources/antideficiencybackgrou...
It was created because of tricks and workarounds past administrations have used to get around the legislative appropriations process. One of its provisions prohibits federal employees from accepting voluntary services for the government. From what I understand, the idea was to prevent people from volunteering today with the expectation of pressuring Congress to pay them tomorrow.
And, to be clear, if it were legal I'd already be trying to find ways I could help.
- Spooky23 13y agoIt makes a lot of sense, there are lots of things that you could do as a friendly helper that would steer the long term direction of an agency or program towards a particular vendor. If you were a Linux specialist, for instance and setup some system that ran solely on Linux, you would in effect be picking a platform and preventing vendors like Microsoft and IBM from competing. Obviously, paying some government contractor bazillions of dollars doesn't necessarily result in a great outcome, but these rules are there to stop the casual corruption that impacts the faith of the public in government.
- thwarted 13y agothese rules are there to stop the casual corruption that impacts the faith of the public in government Because formal, institutionalized corruption doesn't breed lack of faith, I'm sure.