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Senators Lieberman, Collins Astounded DHS Contract Workers Exceed Number of Civilian Employees
(ENEWSPF) ^ | February 24, 2010

Posted on 02/24/2010 2:53:40 PM PST by Former Military Chick

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To: chilltherats
Do what Department of Energy does. Make the contractor a National Laboratory and pay them whatever they want, provide a retirement package, health care, matching 401s, and fantastic leave. Nobody will notice - even if you lose classified stuff.
21 posted on 02/24/2010 3:55:51 PM PST by satan
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Contractors are cheaper and generally produce. No mystery here.


22 posted on 02/24/2010 4:02:12 PM PST by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: Former Military Chick

I’d hate see how many people work for Dept of health and human services.


23 posted on 02/24/2010 4:06:17 PM PST by lwd
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To: FreeStateYank

You’d better watch yourself in Obama’s america. That’s heresy!


24 posted on 02/24/2010 4:14:22 PM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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To: Former Military Chick

Truth be known, contractors to a very large degree do the work for legions of federal employees. Bascially, the taxpayer is paying twice for the same job, and at hourly rates that you wouldn’t believe.


25 posted on 02/24/2010 4:20:44 PM PST by Starboard
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To: visualops

It can be cheaper but....a lot of contracts are let for dubious projects that produce nothing but paper. However, “managing the contract” justifies more jobs so feds love contracts.


26 posted on 02/24/2010 4:26:11 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Former Military Chick
“Collins reiterated her proposal, offered with Lieberman, to transfer money budgeted for terrorist trials in New York City to the Coast Guard budget. “The President proposes to slash the Coast Guard’s funding by $75 million below last year’s budget and reduce the number of uniformed personnel by more than 1,100 positions,” she said. “Instead of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on civilian trials in large American cities for the Guantanamo detainees, that $200 million would be better spent on the Coast Guard. “As we look forward, it is clear that the Coast Guard’s role in homeland security missions will only expand.”

Looks like he's gong to put my whole family out of work - but they are white, after all.

One son who's worked at the Kennedy Space Center for 30 years, is among the 7,000 to be laid off in Sept - because obyummer has directed NASA to divert the Space Program money to predominently Muslim countries - for ‘educating’ Muslim youths and bringing Muslim countries into the Space industry. This should have produced an instant freeze up every Americans spine! He's going to deep six our space program and fund the more Muslim countries to become Iran's!

My SIL just left the Navy after 10 years and is now a Coast Guard C-130 pilot - a new hire, closer to fire?

My youngest son, wife and the son at the Space center's wife all work jobs dependent on the Space center - all projected to lose their jobs - and the area to fall into 15% unemployment. (This is how he creates/saves jobs? Where is the press on this?)

My oldest son works for a private firm that processes Social security disability claims. If obyummer care goes through, the business will be done.

My 4th son is a long-hauler. Over a million truckers have lost their jobs/rigs since obyummers reign started - and they are just starting another layer of regulation deliberately calculated to put another 175,000 off the road - targeting independent OO’s...and small companies. Think on this a minute: If you get the rucking companies whittled down to a few big ones - (over 3,000 smaller and some big ones have gone belly up already) and then obyummer takes over the trucking industry - in the name of national security, of course) - who then controls the food supply? (Ages old tactic of despots: "Who controls the food, controls the people."

Well, that about covers it for putting my family out of work...loss of retirement that was worked decades for and all the rest.

My family is only one in millions - everyone of us will be forever adversely effected - don't even think about your young ones and what their life will be = if this regime isn't removed from office soon - their schemes blocked sooner We can't sit on our thumbs and wait for Nov. to stop these things - it will be too late. They ae moving at breakneck speed. Who says there will BE an election in Nov?

27 posted on 02/24/2010 5:03:06 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: Former Military Chick

The contractors’ employees are generally (not always) better qualified and harder working than government workers. Their companies are paid much more on an hourly basis than civil servants for their services, but those companies, in turn, have to pay the benes for their employees who can be let go without fanfare vs. civil servants.

I’d rather have the split between govt workers and private contractor employees than having all govt workers.


28 posted on 02/24/2010 5:09:19 PM PST by EDINVA (Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Former Military Chick

“We need those slots!”


29 posted on 02/24/2010 9:34:58 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Cicero

” Lieberman is a flaming liberal”..........with a torch


30 posted on 02/24/2010 9:40:21 PM PST by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquers Czar)
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To: satan

Yeah, good idea. I mean, really, who cares?


31 posted on 02/24/2010 11:45:12 PM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: steve86

I’ll say. Anoreth’s cutter is older than I am, and that’s getting pretty darn old. And we sure need nuclear-powered icebreakers.

But it’s just the proposed budget. The CG has friends in Congress - hopefully this won’t happen.


32 posted on 02/25/2010 3:02:17 AM PST by Tax-chick (Cheeseburgers, parrots, volcanos, boats, rum, kittens, machine guns ...)
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To: Roklok

Yes!


33 posted on 02/25/2010 3:05:17 AM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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