Department of Homeland Security Employees: 180,000
Department of Homeland Security Contractors: 200,000


More contractors than employees.


What a useless government agency. Clearly our security is important ... that's why we have somebody else do it.

You don't want to know what it would cost the taxpayer of those extra 200K were all government employees. Give you a hint, I was offered a job in the Maryland area, northeast of Baltimore...which some should already know the place I'm talking about, that would have paid me approximately 110K per year doing about the same thing I'm doing now for much less. ....not to mention the other costs associated with being an employee of the government.

EDIT: ...no, I don't for for DHS. I'm in information assurance.

The first 180,000 are just welfare recipients. The other 200,000 get paid because the work still needs to be done.

(03-07-2010 05:36 PM)Rebel Wrote:  You don't want to know what it would cost the taxpayer of those extra 200K were all government employees. Give you a hint, I was offered a job in the Maryland area, northeast of Baltimore...which some should already know the place I'm talking about, that would have paid me approximately 110K per year doing about the same thing I'm doing now for much less. ....not to mention the other costs associated with being an employee of the government.

EDIT: ...no, I don't for for DHS. I'm in information assurance.

I'm NE of Baltimore. You should come on up.

Anyway, all this ties in to this article

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/art...t-counties

(03-07-2010 04:53 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Department of Homeland Security Employees: 180,000
Department of Homeland Security Contractors: 200,000


More contractors than employees.


What a useless government agency. Clearly our security is important ... that's why we have somebody else do it.

I assume some of these workers would have been attached to other agencies if Mr. Bush had not taken the Democrats' bait and created this bloated Department, but I imagine that adding another bureaucratic layer wasn't the best idea.

Just one agency employs more than one out of every 1,000 people in the country. Amazing.

(03-07-2010 07:14 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(03-07-2010 05:36 PM)Rebel Wrote:  You don't want to know what it would cost the taxpayer of those extra 200K were all government employees. Give you a hint, I was offered a job in the Maryland area, northeast of Baltimore...which some should already know the place I'm talking about, that would have paid me approximately 110K per year doing about the same thing I'm doing now for much less. ....not to mention the other costs associated with being an employee of the government.

EDIT: ...no, I don't for for DHS. I'm in information assurance.

I'm NE of Baltimore. You should come on up.

Anyway, all this ties in to this article

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/art...t-counties

Thought you were in VA? ...but no way in hell am I moving to APG. We got our first snow in 9 years this year. ...and that was enough. I get enough of that on the road. I'm too far north as it is. I want to retire on the Florida panhandle.

I figured APG was what you had in mind, don't know of much else you could've been talking about.

I'm pretty comfortable retiring in SE Texas. Right where I am now, on a lake and an excellent golf course. Three hours from San Antonio and all the benefits that go with being retired military there. Just hoping Obama doesn't destroy things to where staying here becomes untenable. With luck, he only has another 9 months or so to do that, and a congress that's more and more gunshy about going along.

If Obama turns things for the worst, I am looking at overseas options.

(03-07-2010 08:18 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  

(03-07-2010 04:53 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Department of Homeland Security Employees: 180,000
Department of Homeland Security Contractors: 200,000


More contractors than employees.


What a useless government agency. Clearly our security is important ... that's why we have somebody else do it.

I assume some of these workers would have been attached to other agencies if Mr. Bush had not taken the Democrats' bait and created this bloated Department, but I imagine that adding another bureaucratic layer wasn't the best idea.

That's kinda what I was thinking. Why create a whole new bureaucracy, instead of just expanding a current agency to take on the role? Would have been cheaper.