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Does it irritate you to see .gov acting as if there are no budget problems?

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Nebor

Nebor

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After reading nothing in the news but of our impending budget crisis, I couldn't help but feel frustrated after the day I endured.

Here are the things that I heard\saw today:
1) We need to switch from DirectTV to cable because we don't get certain channels right now.
2) A giant concrete pad being poured on which to place a (decorative) tank
3) We need new TVs in the conference room (two 50" samsung's flank a projector screen) because the old ones "make a whining noise now."
4) We have to pay the contractors $120,000 to shift their schedule two days earlier because we didn't let them know within 90 days.
5) Someone getting yelled at for not spending their entire budget as this month draws to an end

The contractors are the most irritating to me. It seems that every time we try to do anything, they tell us that that would violate their contract, and there will be a fee of $XX,XXX. The whole time you're thinking, "Who the fuck would SIGN a contract like that?" Ultimately we end up having to scrape together soldiers to do the contractor's work, which totally defeats the point of having a contract in the first place.

/rant
 
Wait, where did you see all that? Where do you work? Who the F were those contractors?

This story needs more context. :/
 
It was your repub heroes who championed the contracting out of military services as a way to fatten up the bottom line of their friends & cronies.

What makes you think there was any other point to it at all- ideology?
 
Sorry, I work for the Army. This sort of thing is common throughout the military with it's "spend it or lose it" attitude.
 
Jhhnn said:
It was your repub heroes who championed the contracting out of military services as a way to fatten up the bottom line of their friends & cronies.

What makes you think there was any other point to it at all- ideology?
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It was sold to us as being cheaper to pay a contractor than a soldier.
 
Nebor said:
It was sold to us as being cheaper to pay a contractor than a soldier.
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Well, yeh, of course... part & parcel of the trickledown flimflam...

Or was that the "free market can always do it cheaper" flimflam?

They all kinda blend together into the greatest financial flimflam in history, Reaganomics..

Who were the smooth talking pitchmen, anyway?
 
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