No. America prospered grandly when DC was a reclaimed fever-swamp uninhabitable during the summer, and it took most representatives two or more days to travel to or from it.
Just like Moscow.
Pray for America
worked in that area from ‘86ish to ‘95. then again for a few years since.
washdc is where all the tax money comes in... yet nothing is made.
go to tyson’s or the reston town center. go to the parking lots. notice the cars and how new they are. the vast majority are within 3 years old. not cheap models either.
they set the policies that extract money from us and pay their salaries and pensions.
pretty juicy setup.
as for this contract shop, AMT, i’m unaware of them. indian owners taking advantage of the 8a status... i wonder what percentage of their 350 member staff was American born and what percentage was H1b or L3 (or whatever new visa program has popped up since). looks like their charge rate is around $150/hr. not unheard of in govt tech contracting. the actual tech person would get 40-75% of that, depending on the shop.
Gov’t dollars fuel transfer of wealth, they do not create it. Wealth is created by manufacturing and mining.
According to the Washington comPost, everybody around DC drawing a large salary is a war profiteering corporate-jet owning millionaire or billionaire defense contractor. Nope, they couldn’t find any bureaucrats or lobbyists or lawyers. They must not exist at all!
Thank you Washington comPost for clearing that up for us!