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    So do some of these people. It's all based on how much they can make before they get killed.
    I didn't get what you were talking about.
    Huh? I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Oh and you know Blackwater employs many foreign fighters right?
    I did not know that. Do you know the ratio of foreign fighters to American fighters, and if the pay is adjusted to their avg.? What I was trying to argue is they get paid that much because they are filling a niche. The type of people who will do what BW does for less are not as experienced, trained and professional as the people BW gets to employ. So do you have a problem with all govt. contractors, BW, merc's, or just the pay they recieve?

    Who's ing about what now?
    Just people who do . Not you in particular.

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    I did not know that. Do you know the ratio of foreign fighters to American fighters, and if the pay is adjusted to their avg.?
    I don't know the ratio. But there were at least several thousand foreign fighters (Chile, El Salvadore, Colombia, South Africa) in Iraq. I'm not sure what Blackwater's policy is as of today but I don't see why it would have changed. Some of those Chilean fighters were special forces under the Pinochet regime and I believe South Africa has outlawed any mercenary work by their citizens.
    What I was trying to argue is they get paid that much because they are filling a niche.
    A niche created by Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
    The type of people who will do what BW does for less are not as experienced, trained and professional as the people BW gets to employ.
    It's a shame Rummy and Ole Boy wanted to give more and more private companies military contracts.
    So do you have a problem with all govt. contractors, BW, merc's, or just the pay they recieve?
    I have a problem with mercs yeah. Shouldn't we all?

    Just people who do . Not you in particular.
    Right but what are they ing about?
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    I'd like to work for BW once I retire just so I can be called a "mercenary". That is so cool.

    I think it would be great if we could get paid what US congressmen make and they could take our salaries.

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    The M$M is catching on...

    Congress Went After ACORN. Big Business Must Be Next!
    By Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
    Sunday, September 27, 2009


    The art of impersonation for political purposes is catching on. Recently, a couple of conservative provocateurs dressed up as a low-rent pros ute and a pimp and visited the offices of the community organizing group ACORN (an organization we briefly featured in our film), where they got some advice about how to buy a house and start a brothel.

    Like ours, those antics were widely covered in the mainstream media. But in a new twist, Congress got involved, voting to cut off ACORN's federal funding. In an even more exciting turn of events, the House legislation intended to defund ACORN is written so broadly that it would similarly cut off money to "any organization" indicted for various forms of lawbreaking, and any organization with employees or contractors who have been indicted on certain charges....

    ....If the idiocy of a few ACORN workers can lead Congress to defund that organization, surely lawmakers will move to rescind the bailout cash given to the banks whose employees seemed ready to go along with our depraved schemes, and whose reckless gambling with other people's money helped create the foreclosure crisis -- precisely the crisis that ACORN and other agencies are trying to help poor and working-class Americans cope with.

    Surely such action will set a shining example for years to come and will save society from the most criminal tendencies in our midst.

    Won't it?
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