[mountainlyons]

I am also a Federal worker. I am not at the top and I have done my time at the bottom GS3-3.85PH buy if you want to see where the government spends money look at contractors, Thats where the real money is. IBM got paid something like $2B to replace the Air Traffic Control system and backed out and kept the money!

[muawiyah]

Yes, and many government contractors have managed to infiltrate the CATO Institute with their former employees.

Those guys aren't happy with what they are getting and want to get it all, even the COTR's salary if they can.

[BW2221]

The government should hold steadfast when anything like the IBM situation happens. Unfortunately, too many times government contracts are written so the vendor is profitable no matter how badly he screws up. That isn't right.

But, unfortunately those contracts are agreed to by people way up the corporate or government ladder.

[dljordan]

"IBM got paid something like $2B to replace the Air Traffic Control system and backed out and kept the money!"

Those ba*tards! All they gave me was a lot of unpaid overtime. I want my cut!