Private contractors prove a costly part of U.S. war effort

The News & Observer of Raleigh ^ | Oct 29, 2004 | Joseph Neff and Jay Price

[Perdogg]

Liberal evil rag!!

[stuartcr]

Get rid of the contracors and have a draft!!!

[Fierce Allegiance]

$600 a day is on the cheap side.

[Dubya]

FBI probes Halliburton’s receipt of Iraq contracts

[Dubya]

You must not have read the article.

$600 a day is on the cheap side

Sure it is.

[Fierce Allegiance]

For the man doing the work, it is cheap. Guys in different roles in different locations make more.

The layering, which is not all that uncommon, adds a considerable expense.

[Askel5]

Bet he pays a lot in taxes, yes?

[Askel5]

=== Liberal evil rag!!

What do you mean?

[abc1]

Imagine how much money is wasted on pollsters, political consutlants, 527 organizations, PAC's, public relations firms.

For what ?

[Askel5]

=== $600 a day is on the cheap side.

Did you miss the part about the military who do it for a mere fraction of the cost?

Do military pay taxes?

[Askel5]

=== Imagine how much money is wasted on pollsters, political consutlants, 527 organizations, PAC's, public relations firms.


Maybe the GOP could resist the urget to affix dollar bills to every third or fourth mailing as part of the fundraising inundation and save a few bucks that way.

[Fierce Allegiance]

"hired help", ie. no paper trail, usually costs a lot more than 600 a day. Sure the military does it cheaper, but there are situations where you do not want a presence with uniforms, and Blackwater can provide these services. It costs a lot more than %600/day/man.

Do military pay taxes?I did when I was in.

[Askel5]

== no paper trail,

This is a "good thing" where our Moral Wars are concerned?

[Fierce Allegiance]

I didn't even attempt to make a value judgement on the "no paper trail" actions. They do happen though.

[Askel5]

Do military pay taxes? I did when I was in.

I'll be darned. Wearing the sort of uniform that made you a target in the way "paperless, uniformless" sorts are not.

Here's hoping you cleared more that $80K/year else you're probably going to feel pretty stupid for serving your country as some dogface when you could have been clearing some seriously Patriotic Pay ... TAX FREE!!

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Remember, if you stay 12 months, the first 80k in salary is tax free!!!

Interesting ... given the "hands-off" nature of the IRS where these folks are concerned, I'm sure that "paperless" bookkeeping is not a problem after all where Some Corporations are more equal than Others.

[Askel5]

=== I didn't even attempt to make a value judgement on the "no paper trail" actions. They do happen though

You bet they do.

But now that (as above), it's common knowledge that some corporations are more equal than others and assassination is now Accepted Practice (for the Executive Branch, anyway), there's probably no point in making Value Judgments about much anymore.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The military really needs to do something about this. It always pissed me off watching civilian contractors making 6 figure salaries for doing the same work as my E-3s and E-4s that were essentially making minimum wage. Grrrrr...

[Dubya]

I agree with you.

[Dubya]

Some of our military families have to get food stamps to get by.