Umm, mercedesrules, what are you trying to say?
Umm...how about...the money for your paycheck is stolen?
As somebody who's getting ready to retire after 20 years from the active duty military myself, I've received offers to take the security clearance, training, skills, and degree I received from the Air Force and use them overseas as a contractor. My wife and I have been discussing it in earnest, we both agree it would make a nice tax-deferred nest egg to add to my meager military retirement pension.
The contracts are paid for with appropriated funds as set forth in the yearly budgets, voted on and approved by various committees, like the Senate and House Ways and Means Committees. Those appropriated funds pay for such things as bullets, beans, fighter jets, tanks, destroyers, and yes, contractor labor to produce such items or services. Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics, Colt, FN, Beretta, SAIC, Blackwater, and countless others are contractors to Uncle Sam. So where,
exactly would my future contractor paycheck be stolen from if it comes from the same pot of money that my current active duty wages come from?
And I can't wait for w4rma to hop in here and tell me that I'm a mercenary for becoming a government contractor overseas. Kinda like the disgusting filth going on over at
www.DailyKos.com now.