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...what the incoming generals might view as cutting the fat off programs, lower-ranking officers see as a threat to the very goodwill and positive rapport they've worked months to established between themselves and community leaders. Brown says that higher-ups are going to cut the money each contractor receives - Sunni leaders who stick their necks out and who have been increasingly targeted by insurgents in the past few months. About 75% of the contract goes toward the salaries of the guards hired by the contractors. The remaining 25% - or about $11,000 - goes toward so-called administrative costs...
Brown says that initially the plan was to reduce the contractor's take from 25% to a 4%-8% range, upon renewal of each contract. However, he says that officers spoke out and now the reduction is going to be more gradual, from 25% to 20%, and then to 10%. There will be cuts for the salary of checkpoint supervisors as well. "You are asking them to risk their lives and then cutting their salary down. It's not fair," says Brown, who regularly stops by his contractors' homes in the evening to sip small cups of sweet, hot Iraqi...
...right question to ask is, why is Congress playing this game at all? Should a crucial investigative arm of Congress, a body that has done admirable work probing the response to Hurricane Katrina, the actions of controverial security contractor Blackwater U.S.A, and corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff, among other important issues, care about Roger Clemens? Doesn't it have better things to do with its time...
...wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation-construction outfit demanded $20 million to build a hangar at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes instead asked the small contractor who had built his home to do it for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
...would be helpful if we stopped using the euphemism security contractor and instead used the age-old and well-understood term mercenary. Then everybody would have a clearer understanding of what is going on and what is being sanctioned by our government. Christopher Hebeler, St. Louis...