And plenty of civilian contractors. Think Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, etc.
Knarf, you think that's something to laugh about?
People get frustrated, and get a government job for the ...
wait for it ...
security.
No, it's not funny, but it IS government
Here .... true story;
Wy wife needed health care and a few months ago, I went looking on the internet using the "HealthCare Marketplace"
I signed up on an electronic form giving all KINDS of information (KNOWING it was against my very being to give information out ... but we were sufficiently intimidated, we thought we HAD to do SOMEthing)
After 4 or 5 or 6 pages ... the application froze and wouldn't let me go any further and I closed EVERYTHING out and just said FRIK IT !
A few days later we found a plan that was absolutely perfecr for her and we enrolled and she hass used THAT plan fr the last few months (gyno stuff mostly)
We have gotten a call or a letter almost every week for the last two months from someone telling us;
A) ... we owe premiums or we will be dripped and
B) ... if we pay X now, we will not be dropped
I've called twice, and have fielded two other calls and explained we went on line, never accepted anything from the marketplace and we have a plan and thank you, remove us
They are all confused because THEIR records say we are there and the fact is we are not
Folks that got government (subsidised) jobs and trying to do it .... but the system is SO broken, SO rigged ... no one knows what they're doing .... nor why.
I feel bad for the folks ... but not for the system we talked about for years here in FR.