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Talullahhound
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No, you wrong.
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5/9/2010 5:36:41 PM
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MM, with all due respect to your wife's employement history.
We were in a commercial building not a government building, and while I didn't personally make the choice on the building -- we had actually moved from another commercial building a few years before. Yes, I picked the phone service, the computer service and every other service we paid for. We negotiated our own deal. I also picked and paid for our replacement furniture and negotiated with the building owner when the bathroom leaked water all over the carpeting of one office and got them to replace it. I also dealt with having the same office tested by an independent firm when the people in that office claimed they were being made sick by the mold, and mildew associated with the leak. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Operationally, we functioned as a complete and distinct organization.
The only thing we didn't have to do was show a profit.
I realize you are extrapolating your assumptions from your wife's experience, but it's not all like that. At least in DoD, the funding for operations has been decentralized. One other agency is entirely reimbursible from Foreign military sales and must operate solely on the money that is made from that.
I'm sorry I don't have the time or the energy to walk you through a complete explanation of each and every phase of our operation. But then, I doubt I could convince you that it isn't like you think it is. In some ways it is very different from business, but it has become a lot more like business than you think. You do realize, that most of the Cabinet Secretaries, and a lot of the lesser politicals, at least in Defense, come from industry; and there is no reason to think that a lot of those practices have been implemented, at least in Defense, in the 10-15 years.
Just by what you've written, I can see that you are sorely behind on how the government is run.
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 More of What They Didn't Read - MrHodja - 5/6/2010 6:53:37 PM |
 #2 is a tax on white folks - Lifer - 5/6/2010 7:49:36 PM |
| More of What They Didn't Read - Talullahhound - 5/6/2010 8:37:46 PM |
| More of What They Didn't Read - GoneFishin - 5/6/2010 9:02:57 PM |
| Hound, you don't know squat about business - MartiniMan - 5/6/2010 9:12:17 PM |
| er, I'm an MBA - Talullahhound - 5/6/2010 10:48:37 PM |
| er, I'm an MBA, without a clue. - Lifer - 5/7/2010 7:46:53 AM |
| Lifer - water_watcher - 5/7/2010 1:34:12 PM |
| your absolutely right of course. - Lifer - 5/7/2010 4:46:12 PM |
| er, I'm an MBA - MartiniMan - 5/7/2010 8:25:42 AM |
| Actually only took them 4 years - MartiniMan - 5/7/2010 8:27:58 AM |
| er, I'm an MBA - MrHodja - 5/7/2010 8:29:05 AM |
| Maybe - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:44:49 AM |
| I bet Bill Gates wishes he had and MBA - MartiniMan - 5/8/2010 12:29:57 PM |
| er, I'm an MBA - Barneget - 5/7/2010 11:15:01 PM |
| More of What They Didn't Read - Summer Lover - 5/6/2010 10:32:31 PM |
| If - Talullahhound - 5/6/2010 10:55:52 PM |
| If - Summer Lover - 5/6/2010 11:13:51 PM |
| If - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:47:08 AM |
| If - comrade - 5/6/2010 11:16:33 PM |
| More of What They Didn't Read - Summer Lover - 5/6/2010 10:16:48 PM |
| The other side of the coin. - Lifer - 5/7/2010 9:29:07 AM |
| All I can say is..... - lamont - 5/7/2010 12:14:09 PM |
| HEY MM - GoneFishin - 5/7/2010 5:51:16 PM |
| A Little More Than That - MrHodja - 5/7/2010 9:37:20 PM |
| A Little More Than That - GoneFishin - 5/7/2010 10:48:05 PM |
| A Little More Than That - MrHodja - 5/7/2010 11:37:07 PM |
| Ah Yes - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 10:05:33 AM |
| Overseen, reviewed, studied..... - MartiniMan - 5/8/2010 12:10:10 PM |
| Wrong. - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:35:23 PM |
| No, you wrong. - MartiniMan - 5/9/2010 8:42:28 AM |
| MM is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT - Barneget - 5/9/2010 4:53:56 PM |
| I'm not Embarassed - Talullahhound - 5/9/2010 5:41:30 PM |
| I'm not Embarassed - Barneget - 5/9/2010 9:47:39 PM |
No, you wrong. - Talullahhound - 5/9/2010 5:36:41 PM |
| Its not important - MartiniMan - 5/9/2010 5:51:13 PM |
| One sentence says it all - Lifer - 5/10/2010 10:45:19 AM |
| One sentence says it all - MrHodja - 5/10/2010 11:15:20 AM |
| HEY GF - MartiniMan - 5/7/2010 10:48:36 PM |
| HEY GF - GoneFishin - 5/7/2010 11:01:37 PM |
| HEY GF - comrade - 5/7/2010 11:17:25 PM |
| CHALLENGE - MrHodja - 5/7/2010 11:40:13 PM |
| HEY COMMIE - GoneFishin - 5/8/2010 12:41:41 AM |
| HEY COMMIE - comrade - 5/8/2010 12:58:54 AM |
| HEY COMMIE THIS LESS VEILED - GoneFishin - 5/8/2010 1:21:02 AM |
| HEY COMMIE THIS LESS VEILED - comrade - 5/8/2010 1:28:40 AM |
| HEY COMMIE - comrade - 5/8/2010 1:16:23 AM |
| MM - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:57:37 AM |
| I prefer a puffer fish - MartiniMan - 5/8/2010 11:53:05 AM |
| Never got an advanced degree Lamont? - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:54:23 AM |
| Never got an advanced degree Lamont? - Lifer - 5/8/2010 12:38:14 PM |
| Never got an advanced degree Lamont? - MrHodja - 5/8/2010 6:49:17 PM |
| business vs. government. - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 8:23:30 PM |
| Clarification - Lifer - 5/9/2010 8:05:20 AM |
| You Know. - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 9:52:29 AM |
| You Know. - comrade - 5/8/2010 10:17:21 AM |
| No - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 10:26:47 AM |
| No - comrade - 5/8/2010 7:26:30 PM |
| No - MrHodja - 5/8/2010 8:09:07 PM |
| Yes - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 8:25:47 PM |
| Yes - MrHodja - 5/8/2010 8:48:03 PM |
| You Know. - comrade - 5/8/2010 10:17:22 AM |
| You Know. - MrHodja - 5/8/2010 12:06:37 PM |
| I Don't - Talullahhound - 5/8/2010 8:33:37 PM |
| I Don't - MrHodja - 5/8/2010 8:49:52 PM |
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