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I’m with Ron Paul on cutting back the Defense budget. The top 100 private defense contractors are costing taxpayers $306 billion per year.
http://www.govexec.com/features/0807-15/0807-15s3s1.htm
Generally, private contractors are paid twice as much as government employees doing the same work, so it would be much more efficient to hire the contractors full time and cut out the private contractor all together.
