If you can't find someone to take your shitty job, you're compensation for said job is likely equally shitty. I don't understand how one gets from "I can't staff this crap job offering bottom of the barrel compensation" to "no one in America wants this job".

Go to the right parts of town and you can find all-American hookers willing to suck your cock for $20. People will do anything for money. Don't fucking tell me that Americans just don't want certain jobs... they just want money for it -- probably more money than the poor immigrant schmuck who you're eying for the position 'cause (s)he'll do it for next to nothing. Honestly, you should be paying that immigrant schmuck more anyway, else you're a greedy, dishonest, racist, diseased cock bag. "they're not from here, so I can pay them less"... fuck that shit.

Look, what do you expect? They are in business after all. I don't begrudge them a profit.

What really irks me though, is how they parlay their business position and liberal stance into political power to try and do things that make them more money, and the politicians that fall for the lure of money over what's best for the country. Convinces me of the geniuses of the founding fathers of the country who believed the government needed to be small and the least intrusive as possible, where politicians would have the minimum of power.

Meanwhile, the company I'm at has teams at less than half strength, pretty much every silicon valley perk you can think of, great working conditions, very high pay, and just can't find people to fill the positions, even with being willing to sponsor visas if only we could find someone competent with low level code and rendering.

For a 10-hour workweek to be productive enough to support a "leisure society with resources for all" will require significant advances in materials, economics, physics, engineering, and especially politics.

In my entire life only times I can think of soldiers keeping anything safe was American interests in other countries overseas, think oil. Otherwise they don't keep us safe. Seems their job is more protecting US interests.

Typical Progressive thinking is being evidenced by the article. We blew 10 billion on this in their minds, that could've been spent on "other things" (Never mind that they NEVER tell anyone what those "other things" that it wouldn't have been wasted on was) and that we have "gaping holes in our defense" as a result.

They never back up any of the claims with proof. Especially the "holes" remarks. When get them cornered on details, you're a "racist", "bigot", and the like from them.

Like you said...not much of any real story here, but they'll beat that drum so that they can reduce the defense budget and pour it into a real hole in the ground. Their little pet projects don't get even half of the "scrutiny" that this got from them- and produce even less results than these DoD "failues" did. But it's all about the feels, don't you know?

...If you were rich in 2007, you're even richer today.

You serious man? There was a huge collapse in the stock market in 2098 and were still in a recession. Coincides perfectly with the time Obama entered office and the dems took both houses.

Coincidence much?

Automate the passengers. Problem solved. Forever.

Let's be very clear that the real situation is that you wish that much of what NSA does is illegal and unconstituional. Unfortunately the law, courts, and Congress are against you. Your wish is just that, a wish, and it isn't coming true any time soon.

It's a shame you can't identify who the real monsters are. The real monsters are putting truck bombs in crowded city streets, crucifying children, and stealing women by the thousands for rape, forced marriages, or to be sex slaves. Some US citizens agree with those ideas, and even go overseas to help the monsters. Those monsters believe it is their duty to force their "civilization" on you. On top of that are several countries that would love to cripple or destroy the US. The NSA is part of why the real monsters and evil countries are held in check.