I'm sure they could be bought for much less.

Not at all. If the idea was to have a standing army it would have been written just like the Navy.

The whole non-profit thing is a scam anyway just like non-profit healthcare. It's just a ruse to avoid taxes. Everyone involved in a non-profit makes money. It's just the accounting.

In reality there wasn't supposed to be a standing army at all. In the powers of congress they congress is given the power to:

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

So an army was only supposed to be raised when needed. Which is how it was for over 100 years.

I thought the reason to outsource security is because the contractor takes the hit for liability. Let's say your security guard open fires and hits some bystanders. If it's your employee you are liable. The lawsuit will look into your hiring, training, etc. Since you have deep pockets you are on the hook for damages.

Now if you hire it out you can claim you are an IT company and don't know anything about security guards which is why you hired experts to do the job.

By the way most government facilities hire security contractors like Delaware North.

Not from Utah I guess?

or interchanges. If the cars are well guided and coordinated you could have full speed ground level crossing where the cars just space out enough to weave past each other. Would be terrifying at first but people would get used to it.

Depends on the collapse. If the FED does another huge QE and causes the dollar to depreciate you are correct. If they don't and there is a depression then you will lose your job and still owe the debts but have no way to pay.

Just do what the rest of us space geeks do. Get a job there and get as close as humanly possible.

I would settle for not bailing them out.

Do you honestly think the economy is fixed now? You are going to be just as shocked when it collapses this time as you were in 2008. The same policies are in place so why would it be fixed?

If unions were just collective bargaining groups nobody would oppose them. The problem are the laws that give them extra rights and the fact they typically resort to violence to get their way.

Workers should absolutely have the right to bargain as a collective. But the employer should also have the right not to negotiate and to fire all of those employees and hire replacements. The reason people don't like unions is they will resort to violence to prevent willing people from taking the jobs they abandoned.

Use your estimate precision as a bargaining chip for things your need. Typically what impacts my estimate is requirement uncertainty. So give an estimate with an error +200/-10% error. If we could just finalize these particular requirements my estimate would improve. This way a manager will focus on getting the requirements fixed.

I was once given a "project" and I asked for the requirements document. They said there are no requirements so I happily said great I'm done designing!

Are you kidding? If people were diciplined enough to wait to buy things there would be zero consumer debt. There is a multi-trillion dollar industry based on people not wanting to wait until they can afford things.

The difference is voluntary and force.

This is also how large stores give a 5% discount using their own cards. They don't have to pay the fees.