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In reply to the discussion: NSA Circles the Wagons - Ditching 90% of its System Administrators to Keep Lid on Secrets [View all]jmowreader
(53,113 posts)42. Good.
The next thing he needs to clean out is the $85,000 Private Corps at the Pentagon. In The Big One we sent soldiers to cook meals and deliver ammo, and they made $50 per month as any modern-day GI who's ever visited a World War II veteran will attest. In Bushwars I and II we sent civilian contractors and paid them $85,000 a year, because Bush hates the government.
We could cut down unnecessary wars by requiring anyone who participates in one to be an active duty soldier or a reserve soldier whose unit has been called to active duty.
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NSA Circles the Wagons - Ditching 90% of its System Administrators to Keep Lid on Secrets [View all]
bigtree
Aug 2013
OP
"Anal retentive fantasies of being able to do something useful with it" YEP, but it's not Anal
Th1onein
Aug 2013
#31
Yep, once you know who a guy is, that's a good time to look into what they did before.
bemildred
Aug 2013
#43
I think it's safe to say it has already not ended well, except it is by no means ended. nt
bemildred
Aug 2013
#8
Well one thing Snowden has done to reduce outside contractors. And that's good. nt
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
#10
It's an increasingly paranoid circle that keeps drawing smaller and smaller circles around itself.
reformist2
Aug 2013
#16
The circle of people "in the know" is shrinking to an increasingly elite few. Not a good thing.
reformist2
Aug 2013
#15
Wait I thought that not just anybody could access the information that Snowden was talking about.
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#22
They think that if the throw out enough garbage propaganda we'll get tired.
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#45