U.S. contractors becoming a fourth branch of government...

[bridgit]

'WASHINGTON: In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government's reflexive answer to almost every problem.

They hired another contractor.

It did not matter that the company they chose, CACI International, had itself recently avoided a suspension from federal contracting; or that the work, delving into investigative files on other contractors, appeared to pose a conflict of interest; or that each person supplied by the company would cost taxpayers $104 an hour. Six CACI workers soon joined hundreds of other private-sector workers at the G.S.A., the government's management agency.'

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/04/america/web.0204contract.php

[tnlefty]

1. I'lll kick this one for you.

These private guns for hire make me ill, and I feel that they are a direct threat to what little of a democratic nation we have left. I was disgusted to read that Blackwater was turned loose in NOLA.

edit: added "to"

[bridgit]

2. ty, friend, we just stand here in motionless silence as this nation is being...

disassembled before our eyes; debating as to whether there should be a debate!?!?!?

disband that old white man's social club + a few chicks & a black guy/so-called greatest deliberative body in the world if all they can do for the nation is NOTHING!

lead this country or take it to the ash heep of history with the rest of the usurpers of great notions

[stillcool]

3. It's getting to be too much...

for me. My brain is full of this shit. It all swirls around, with nowhere to go.

[bridgit]

4. rabid, wild-eyed, hand over fist capitalism has gone completely INSANE!!

these people hate us, they hate our democracy...but they are in love with the smell of our money!!

[Blue_Tires]

5. ttt n/t

[sweetheart]

6. "becoming"?? nt

[bridgit]

7. ha! i know huh...

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