Too many consultants

Why is it that every time government has a good idea, such as culling the deer in Shawnee Mission Park and giving the meat to food pantries, government officials have to hire a consulting firm?

This time, it was to instruct the police sharpshooters how to shoot the deer (10/26, National/Local, “Tab for help with deer kill: $185 an hour”). We have many hunters who know how to shoot a deer to procure meat, and surely our police sharpshooters know how to make a head shot.

But no. Taxpayers’ money is spent unnecessarily on having someone else tell us how we should do everything. Federal stimulus money is bogged down and not creating jobs, but consultants are being hired to tell us how to spend the money when we finally get it.

  Cities on both sides of the state line hire consulting firms to tell them how to do the jobs that taxpayers pay them to do. Many times these firms are not even hometown companies, so we are not even supporting local businesses. Talk about a waste. 

Kathryn Alexander
Olathe

Comments

[Pub 17]

Was this before or after you trained with bin Laden, you terrorist pig?

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

I shot expert with the M16A1, M203, M60 and M72 during my TIS. I would make a lousy cop with that skillset at that level. It generally takes cops 40-50 rounds to hit a perp with 3 or 4 rounds.

[hajkar]

Who didn't do so well on the sharpshooting test?

[Jazz-Man]

Damn Deer, what about worriyg about Humans and hunger, feed them deer and get over it.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Funny how sharpshooter is a not the cream of the crop in the military. This is why we have a national guard which should hav ben brought in to contend with this.

[GHMan]

The sharpshooters had to be trained to shoot them in the head, using night-vision goggles, target practice with suppressors, and probably other things different than a regular hunt. It's obvious Dewey has never picked up a gun!

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

First of all Kathryn, "stimulus" oney a.k.a hot checks do not create long term jobs, it does crete expensive short term jobs.
The entire "green" concept is more fashion statement, as most pople boasting about these jobs can not explain scopes of work invloved in the technologies and projects that have been ongoing for somtime now.
The word green is misunderstood as meaning free, which is inaccurate. As for "consultants", they are like community orgamizers, they know how to spend OPM, waste time on "feasability studies" and then say it didn't work due to some dynamic.

[Kee]

Idiocy in Kansas and in the paper.

Deer have been controlled by hunters in Missouri's urban parks for years, AND the hunts are a revenue GENERATORS as fees are charged permits to hunt!

The Parks are simply put off limits to foot traffic other than to hunters for the days open to hunting.

It ain't rocket science folks.

[Dewey]

While I would have muich preferred local bowhunters do the work at the park, I understand why they hired a consultant. The sharpshooters had to be trained to shoot them in the head, using night-vision goggles, target practice with suppressors, and probably other things different than a regular hunt.

They have done this for years in Iowa City, IA in a local park. The park is no where near the size of SM Park, but they had a problem too. If you did hirelocal hunters to do this, they wouldn't have taken this many deer in the few days they hunted, so it appears the money was well spent, to get it over quickly and avoid Jason Miller and his band of clowns to possibly interfere.