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Originally posted by 350HP930
If they are the only company that can do the work, then why do they just resub it out again.

What do you mean by "resub it out again?"

Originally posted by 350HP930
This kind of detail contracting work used to be done directly by the military with much better oversight, but giving this work away to a crooked and politically connected subcontractor is nothing short of criminal.

Its just another example of privatization run amuck, but as usual the bush and war lovers will defend it no matter how corrupt it is.

Clearly after many years of downsizing, there are not people left in the military to do construction work or sling hash. Almost all military slots either are directrly combat related or are oversight for work that is contracted out. Many of the traditional military tasks are going to civil service folks...to include command jobs.

Most Americans, (liberals in particular) though it was a great idea to tremendously reduce the size of the military with the understanding that money would be saved in peacetime and that we could mobilize larger guard and reserve components to help fight and contract out the remainder of the support/logistic functions. Now that the strategy has come home to roost, they do nothing but complain about the guard and reserve being called to duty and the cost of cointractors. We could increase the size of our military to cold war proportions, but that would cost much more than the current contractors do....and to rapidly increase the size of our forces that much during wartime could only be accomplished via a draft. One must be careful what they wish for. As always, the alternative (cure) is often worse than the problem (illness).