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Dark Brandon’s Policies Pt V

The U.S. debt is now at $33,000,000,000,000. It increased $1,000,000,000,000 in just the last three months. The budget deficit hit $1,500,000,000,000 for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of 61% since last year. And the critters in DC keep spending more and more. (And I am being ordered to shovel as much money out the door as possible before the end of the month.)

Too much news and editorial space has been used on discussing the Senate dress code. Suits versus gym shorts and hoodies. What is appropriate attire for such an important institution? Actually clown suits are the best fit. That's what these morons are. Clowns. Practically all of them. Both sides. Retarded clowns with our checkbooks.
 
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Bodhisattva said:
The U.S. debt is now at $33,000,000,000,000. It increased $1,000,000,000,000 in just the last three months. The budget deficit hit $1,500,000,000,000 for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of 61% since last year. And the critters in DC keep spending more and more. (And I am being ordered to shovel as much money out the door as possible before the end of the month.)

Too much news and editorial space has been used on discussing the Senate dress code. Suits versus gym shorts and hoodies. What is appropriate attire for such an important institution? Actually clown suits are the best fit. That's what these morons are. Clowns. Practically all of them. Both sides. Retarded clowns with our checkbooks.
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Clowns writing checks with your money and the money they are boring from your grandkids.
 
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The U.S. debt is now at $33,000,000,000,000. It increased $1,000,000,000,000 in just the last three months. The budget deficit hit $1,500,000,000,000 for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of 61% since last year. And the critters in DC keep spending more and more. (And I am being ordered to shovel as much money out the door as possible before the end of the month.)

Too much news and editorial space has been used on discussing the Senate dress code. Suits versus gym shorts and hoodies. What is appropriate attire for such an important institution? Actually clown suits are the best fit. That's what these morons are. Clowns. Practically all of them. Both sides. Retarded clowns with our checkbooks.
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Were you designated "essential" in the last shutdown? Asking for my daughter...
 
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Were you designated "essential" in the last shutdown? Asking for my daughter...
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In my office, one is "essential" if one is a contracting officer, which is a supervisory position. I took a job a level down to a non-supervisory position when I moved to Florida. The DC area is extremely top heavy and the ratio of chiefs than Indians is out of whack. Here, and I imagine most everywhere outside of the Beltway, it's a more conventional pyramid organizational structure. Earlier this year, I got promoted back to the supervisor level. There's only a few positions like that here (small office), and I had to wait for an incumbent to leave. (It's been a good year in that respect - got four pay bumps in the first six months of this year.)

So, while I'm "essential," it's a gray area about me being required to be in the office. I won't be able to work on any new contracts because, with a shut down, there will be no money appropriated. I am working on the supporting documentation some FY24 actions now because the events are taking place in November. The plan is to have everything done and then fund the contracts by mid-October once funding filters down (if there is no shut down). So, I could come in and keep working on that, but I'm not really supposed to.

My colleague who is a contracting officer for construction will report in. These are multi-year endeavors with a different type of funding, so he will keep doing what he has been doing.

I'd prefer to take a vacation while the clown games are played. I won't get paid initially for the enforced time off, but 99% of the time we get back pay once government opens up again.
 
I came to work at my current position during COVID. I work for an agronomy co-op, so we were considered "essential workers"....I suppose because we were directly responsible for having grain and beans sent to market.

You would have never known there was a pandemic. I came to work my 1st day, masked up. Nobody else in the office wore them. Not by coincidence, we had a patient zero who exposed half the company to COVID. At one time, I was the only one in I.T. still in the office - as everyone else exposed had gone into quarantine.
 
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In my office, one is "essential" if one is a contracting officer, which is a supervisory position. I took a job a level down to a non-supervisory position when I moved to Florida. The DC area is extremely top heavy and the ratio of chiefs than Indians is out of whack. Here, and I imagine most everywhere outside of the Beltway, it's a more conventional pyramid organizational structure. Earlier this year, I got promoted back to the supervisor level. There's only a few positions like that here (small office), and I had to wait for an incumbent to leave. (It's been a good year in that respect - got four pay bumps in the first six months of this year.)

So, while I'm "essential," it's a gray area about me being required to be in the office. I won't be able to work on any new contracts because, with a shut down, there will be no money appropriated. I am working on the supporting documentation some FY24 actions now because the events are taking place in November. The plan is to have everything done and then fund the contracts by mid-October once funding filters down (if there is no shut down). So, I could come in and keep working on that, but I'm not really supposed to.

My colleague who is a contracting officer for construction will report in. These are multi-year endeavors with a different type of funding, so he will keep doing what he has been doing.

I'd prefer to take a vacation while the clown games are played. I won't get paid initially for the enforced time off, but 99% of the time we get back pay once government opens up again.
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My daughter is a procurement lawyer with the USAF in Yorktown, VA. I know they're very worried because the timing is extremely bad. They're having to move, with all that entails, on 10/14. She telecommutes everyday but one during the week already...
 
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Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs.
 
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“So we’ve got inflation waning, strong employment, the Dow very strong…And yet I know that we’ll spend the next six months hearing voters talk about how out of control inflation is, and how bad the economy is, and why they’re open to Trump 2024.”
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From Cristol??? His hatred for Trump has made him see things more as they are, than as they look through RedRight glasses, it seems.
Too bad it took a scumbag like Trump to make that happen, because he’s a smart guy; his ideology blocked his vision, I guess.
Truth is truth, no matter who says it; reality is reality, no matter what the unhinged degenerates who support Trump (publicly) claim.
 
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It’s always been said “you get what you pay for”; is that three-ring circus in DC really worth 33 trillion??
This is what happens when money controls everything, even elections. The fact people seem upset about it surprises me; it’s almost like they had no idea this was happening.
 
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twofbyc said:
It’s always been said “you get what you pay for”; is that three-ring circus in DC really worth 33 trillion??
This is what happens when money controls everything, even elections. The fact people seem upset about it surprises me; it’s almost like they had no idea this was happening.
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The fedgov is taking in twice the revenue it did just 20 years ago while credit card use is at an all-time high here in the US. Lots of talk about how great the economy is yet I know tons of folks living month to month via credit cards as their wages have lagged behind inflation.

But yeah, all is well and we should totally keep trusting them with even more of our money.
 
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The fedgov is taking in twice the revenue it did just 20 years ago while credit card use is at an all-time high here in the US. Lots of talk about how great the economy is yet I know tons of folks living month to month via credit cards as their wages have lagged behind inflation.

But yeah, all is well and we should totally keep trusting them with even more of our money.
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Two days left in the fiscal year; it's the busiest time for those in government procurement. There's a mad scramble to waste every last dollar of the taxpayer's money. I'll provide more details next week after I get back from my niece's wedding this weekend. Needless to say, in spite of my efforts not to do so, the spending orgy gets more and more epic every year. One contract I finished last week is for medical and dental exams for a few hundred guardsmen at one of the bases. The cost the government willingly paid for dental exams (not treatment, just the initial exams) is about $1000/each. (The entire cost of the contract is almost $3.4M.) When I pushed back at the stupidity of this requirement, the response I received was, "We have to spend this money (before the end of the fiscal year) or it will go to waste." :mad::rolleyes: Anyone who defends government's ever-increasing size and reach and thinks the deficit is due to not enough taxes should be ashamed of themselves.
 
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Two days left in the fiscal year; it's the busiest time for those in government procurement. There's a mad scramble to waste every last dollar of the taxpayer's money. I'll provide more details next week after I get back from my niece's wedding this weekend. Needless to say, in spite of my efforts to not to do so, the spending orgy gets more and more epic every year. One contract I finished last week is for medical and dental exams for a few hundred guardsmen at one of the bases. The cost the government willingly paid for dental exams (not treatment, just the initial exams) is about $1000/each. (The entire cost of the contract is almost $3.4M.) When I pushed back at the stupidity of this requirement, the response I received was, "We have to spend this money (before the end of the fiscal year) or it will go to waste." :mad::rolleyes: Anyone who defends government's ever-increasing size and reach and thinks the deficit is due to not enough taxes should be ashamed of themselves.
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I would be interested to know what is included in the dental exam. Did it include a prophy or deep scaling, cancer screening, bite wing x-rays, full mouth PA's, panoramic x-ray, and perio probing?

I would also love to know if the dentists receiving this fee work for the government or private clinics.

No matter the answer to the above, $1000 is an exorbitant fee. But without knowing what all it includes, we don't know how much it is overpriced.
 
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I would be interested to know what is included in the dental exam. Did it include a prophy or deep scaling, cancer screening, bite wing x-rays, full mouth PA's, panoramic x-ray, and perio probing?

I would also love to know if the dentists receiving this fee work for the government or private clinics.

No matter the answer to the above, $1000 is an exorbitant fee. But without knowing what all it includes, we don't know how much it is overpriced.
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The $1000 is just the labor cost; it should be a fraction of that. X-rays and everything else is separately priced. I don't know the details of the backgrounds of the dentists, hygienists, etc., but the company that won this contract is a "small" business, so we have to award to them. So, they get to jack up their prices more than the typical bloated cost by a government contractor. I say "small" because this company (and most that get government contracts, in my experience) are not small by any definition other than a government one. This company has nearly 100 subsidiaries that do all manner of government work. And because they are "small," the only competition they face is from other "small" companies. The systematic retardation of government waste and the level that the government goes to screw itself over is impressive.
 
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The $1000 is just the labor cost; it should be a fraction of that. X-rays and everything else is separately priced. I don't know the details of the backgrounds of the dentists, hygienists, etc., but the company that won this contract is a "small" business, so we have to award to them. So, they get to jack up their prices more than the typical bloated cost by a government contractor. I say "small" because this company (and most that get government contracts, in my experience) are not small by any definition other than a government one. This company has nearly 100 subsidiaries that do all manner of government work. And because they are "small," the only competition they face is from other "small" companies. The systematic retardation of government waste and the level that the government goes to screw itself over is impressive.
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I love how anyone thinks this is different in corporate America, especially in big companies. I had a customer that paid me $200 an hour for 5 people to work there a full 40 hours a week for over a year because they couldn't get approval to pay 120-150K a year for any of them. Yes they paid my company 384,000 per year, per person because they could not get the budget to hire those same people for less than half that. All big entities, Governments, Non Profits, Companies end up doing the same stuff
 
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I love how anyone thinks this is different in corporate America, especially in big companies. I had a customer that paid me $200 an hour for 5 people to work there a full 40 hours a week for over a year because they couldn't get approval to pay 120-150K a year for any of them. Yes they paid my company 384,000 per year, per person because they could not get the budget to hire those same people for less than half that. All big entities, Governments, Non Profits, Companies end up doing the same stuff
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Whataboutism aside, to compare the two is ridiculous. Having worked in corporate America and the federal government, the level of waste is not in the same universe. Hiring people not to work, hiring people to do duplicate work, buying things that are not needed, buying things that are duplicates, etc. That's the norm for government. And we are $33,000,000,000,000 in debt. Private sector cannot come close to this level of stupidity or they would go under (unless the government bails them out).

I have a colleague who is finishing up a contract to buy the government's favorite EOY items: laptops. $1.5M worth. Are they needed? Nope. They just bought some last year and the year before and the year before. Like before, these laptops will soon go to a newly built warehouse. And this is a relatively small operation. Multiply this waste by all the other government agencies large and small across the country. Nothing comes close to this level of insanity. I've seen it all day every day for 15 years.
 
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