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Old 09-21-2004, 09:13 PM   #13
Cyber Wolf
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Originally Posted by tw
You forgot the number one reason. Even truck drivers were being paid by US taxpayers over $100,000 per year just to drive the truck. Private security people were being paid on the order of $150,000+ annually. If I recall correctly, this is all tax free.
Precisely what I meant by this one: "Some of them are people who see our government flushing millions...no...billions of dollars into Iraq..."

That $100K/annum salary isn't there because the public wants it to be. There're Federal pawprints all over that arrangement. They have their fingers in it somehow, directly or indirectly.
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