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Drahthaardogs

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10. Because contractors are on the take and

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:20 PM

Apr 2016

The legislators are in cahoots with them. Try being a federal employee with their pay frozen while you watch Contractors make twice what you do for the same job. Then you get to listen to your Congressman complain about Federal employees while he uses the mail for free and bemoans it not arriving fast enough.

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