Where did the government get the money to pay you? They take money from the private sector to pay you.Since I haven't posted in thread for a bit, figured I'd jump back in just for this BULLSHIT comment. I'm a dirty scumbag contractor for the the DoD, spent 24 years active duty USAF. If you think we aren't paying taxes, you are fucking brain dead. I pay well over 35% of my salary to taxes...and I despise "unions"...just another scam to soak in cash from people that work for a living.
Do I "need" to work for the DoD, no. However (comma for effect) my skillset gets me a lot better paycheck than if I went in to the civilian trade craft and back to working on communications infrastructure. It was fun as a kid, but climbing antenna structures or sitting in a manhole splicing cable is not a the best gig for people over 50.
So they take money from P and give it to you. Then they take some of it back from you. But it all came from P.