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To: BearCub
You clearly know nothing about running a business or about salaries for skilled individuals. If you were a businessman charging the government you would probably charge 100%-200% on top of the individual's salary for normal expenses such as benefits (small part), travel and transportation (big part), office space (a bigger part), secretarial and staff support (also a big part), self-employment taxes, worker's compensation, the cost of having a contract officer and lawyers to manage the contract, etc. etc. $32,000 cost to the government for a part time job would barely pay a high-school student to mow lawns.

What you certainly are not getting is a skilled interpreter/analyst. And it is the analyst part that is the important part of this.

12 posted on 06/02/2002 6:50:53 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson
Dude, I was making a joke. Of course I know that the individual analysts aren't getting all the money. So lighten up & lay off telling me what I 'clearly don't know'!
16 posted on 06/02/2002 7:47:21 AM PDT by BearCub
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To: AndyJackson
$32,000 cost to the government for a part time job would barely pay a high-school student to mow lawns.

What you certainly are not getting is a skilled interpreter/analyst. And it is the analyst part that is the important part of this.

I suspect they might be outsourcing it to the "friendly" Arabic country like Egypt or Jordan?

37 posted on 06/03/2002 7:38:22 AM PDT by A. Pole
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