Try selling that line to the hundreds of people laid off from defense contractors over the last few months, or the 5,000 former staffers of the Joint Forces Command which Gates shut down. The first article is from May, and there've been even more since then. Obama is quietly gutting the Pentagon to pay for his union-hack and welfare-queen constituencies.
And what makes you think that performance bonuses aren't already part of all these contracts?
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Dear Secretary Gates,
Thank you. You apparently understand the critical financial mess this country is in. Please S#itcan about 200K more. They can then go seek jobs in the private sector using the
fantastic experience that the private sector taxpayer has financed for them. And they can start helping to support the bloated DoD by paying some taxes that are not just re-cycled dollars from DoD payrolls. I’m sure many of them have an entrepreneurial streak and won’t have any problem with self employment. I hear the restaurant industry is recovering well. You could direct some to look there.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
The cash strapped American private sector taxpayer.