[bomelia]

If they are risking their lives, they ought to get better than 25K a year. $102K sounds about right. Bureaucrats want to make the big DBR and GS15 incomes for pushing paper and checking off the boxes, but love to short change the guys taking the bullets for them.

Same with the aholes in government running education. Teachers should be contracted at high pay. Bereaucrats should recieve low pay... that way there would be less of them.

As far as no bid contracts, I would know nothing about that. We compete for everything we do.

If everything went in house, nothing would get done. Goverment folks are too busy taking courses so they can get promoted. And going on cherry retreats so they can learn to think outside the box. And so on. Its the contractors who do the work. And you know it.

Mike