Great post, love detail. Of course - keep in mind that everybody can see what you post. If you ruffle serious feathers... well... gotta be careful there. All other feathers can be ruffled though I suppose.
Gov’t contracting is quite a nwo beast.
“Of course - keep in mind that everybody can see what you post. “
Thank you for the warning. I’m 61 and I got Obama’d out of a job from my most recent company whose motto is: “You’ll buy whatever we build no matter how crappy because we’ve got Senators.” That worked until it didn’t. I did not go quietly into that good night. In an unprecedented move I got permission to submit an unsolicited proposal to our marketing VP. Our company had bought another company and we owned a design of theirs that could be immediately marketed to India. His response was that we wanted to sell them (X) and his goal was to sell (X), not some product he didn’t know about. I sent him the Indian military budget and pointed out that they could buy at most a handful of (X) but they needed and could buy hundreds of the new product.
As for the procurement issues. The stunning part is that everybody on both sides know all about them. Read any contract and point to the things that drive up costs and the contracting agency can tell you where they come from. The environmental lobby forbids the use of chromium and cadmium…because, uh warming or something. Then there are the small business set-asides…money for fake black or real Muslim owned businesses who then feed it back through lobbying. Some contracts require diversity programs, I’d guess that’s from the gay lobby. I have a soap box and the will to use it but nowhere to set it down.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “politics is about who gets how much and when.” Odd that the truest words ever spoken in the political realm would issue forth from a Democrat.