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In defiance of that order. >> reporter: people suggest in government there is no bottom line, no profit, loss motive to meet spending guidelines in the government. one source who has done contract work with gsa told me last night, once money is budgeted the goal is to spend it quickly as possible no matter how efficiently it is spent or huy it is spent. that is especially true when the stimulus money hit federal agencies, the goal was to spend, spend, spend. patti ann: doug mckelway, live from w...

Basis. i think what we have to look at is technology and the recession gave us a freelance economy where a lot of people are working for many people collecting many paychecks and the businesses that arent, the restaurants that were mentioned or retail stores, people arent spending enough money to go into those places that those people need to staff up i think theres two different things going on that are impacting those numbers. >> do you think that this is a sea change? this is going to stick e...

Report about people doing contract work or being freelancers, and maybe theres something there. maybe all of these people have been gearing up to start their own thing and then hire more people as the economy gets better? >> well, we hope thats the case. in fact, if you look at another statistic in our report it shows that the overall number of start-ups including a lot of the people that are on this show. people that only have one employee and themselves, the total start-up is actually up. down...

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