Groundhog Day

Francine McKenna is irate that the US Treasury has hired PwC and E&Y to help implement the massive financial bailout - almost for emphasis she says it's like letting wolves, not just foxes, into the hen house.

Why do we keep going with so called "safe choices"? Reagan once said some thing to the effect of Washington having a habit of subsidizing poorly performing industries and companies.

But why just pick on DC?

My biggest dread in the recession is CIOs will similarly consolidate the spend with their biggest, "safest" vendors - when in fact those very players represent the most "empty calories" in sw, outsourcing, telecom spend.