By Jesse Russell

Under a Bush administration plan nearly two-thirds of the U.S. Forest Service could be outsourced. According to documents released early this week more than 21,000 jobs could be put out to bid by 2009.

[Ruch1]: What this is about is replacing civil servants who belong to public employee unions who tend to contribute money to Democratic candidates with contracts to corporations that will in turn contribute to PACs that give to Republican candidates.

Jeff Ruch is Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. He says the problem with replacing federal workers with contractors is the employees will no longer work for the United States, but will now work for a corporation.

[Ruch]: The ability to directly discipline or challenging them becomes somewhat problematic because its now just a question of...they can blame it on the contractor.