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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (2148)	8/25/2003 12:09:51 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<Other proposals are based in pragmatism. Mr. Rumsfeld told Congress he wanted to transfer to civilians or contract workers an estimated 300,000 administrative jobs now performed by people in uniform.>>> Pragmatism doesn't seem to be part of the picture. We have 1.4 million troops. If 300,000 of them are administrative jobs, that means more than 1 in 5 have nothing more to do than administer the other 4. Why not streamline the administrative process to 1 in 20, which would put another 240,000 troops in the field, or reduce the head count enough to save tax payers around $5 billion a year?