Obama’s enacted small business law has made the federal contracting realm an absolute nightmare. Instead of hiring the best choice for federal contracts, there are strict criteria to only allow what are called 8A companies to bid on and win many federal contracts. These companies have to be below a certain size and must have a special status such as minority owned, woman owned, etc. The problem with this is that companies are very tiny which in turn causes a very volatile environment for contractors across the country. It’s essentially been turned into a way for those companies to get started, grow beyond the limit of size and then lose the contract status by not being qualified again to reup the contract. This makes the job security of the people in those companies fragile. I had a job one day and without any warning, didn’t the next along with every other employee. The contractor walked off the job and left us. It also makes the quality of work be essentially non-existent. Because these companies are new, small and often never had a federal contract before, they simply have no idea how to navigate it or even what to do. This holds no value for the government that gave them the contract. Instead of making progress on projects, time is spent arguing about policy and babying the companies. This stipulation needs to be repealed so the quality of work goes up, workers have security, benefits aren’t 2600 dollars a month and real, established companies have a chance to win contracts that know what they’re doing.