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host, it's not like the one necessarily entails the other. a person can be against a certain level of compensation yet still object to abuse where it is found.
contracting woes are a byproduct of skimping on defense spending in the last 15 years. not that the budgets haven't been enormous, just that they haven't been equal to the mission the military has been tasked with. many jobs once performed by uniformed personnel are now contracted out. the idea was that we could save money by contracting out those functions instead of having additional military personnel on the books in purely support roles (for whom the gov pays medical/insurance/training costs). well... now that we're in two protracted conflict those costs are ballooning. wide gaps are opening in the system's practicality and sustainability... and to this "troop" contracting out so much of our defense doesn't seem like such a very good idea.
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