The reason you have 'no-bid' contracts for the sale of public utilities as you have to make damn sure you don't sell it to someone whose just going to turn around and double the price of that utility as soon as they get the chance. You also have to make sure whoever it's being sold to has the wherewithal to run something that everyone notices if they fail to deliver.
Perhaps I can interest you in a bridge in Brooklyn, you can have first dibs at making an offer.
You reasoning is you don't have competitive bids is because someone might get it cheap? Do you have no concept of setting a minimum in an auction?
The reason you have 'no bid contracts' with the military is that sometimes you have to ensure there are organizations around capable of producing highly specialized goods and services at a moments notice. There's just no market for much of what the military buys--and that's how it should be!
Are you a shill for a military industrial corporation or something? There were flu vaccine shortages for multiple years. The government stepped in and guaranteed the purchase so vaccine companies were not disincentivized by an unpredictable demand. No-bid contracts were not needed to assure a vaccine supply.
With that in mind, I find your reasoning again to be unconvincing.
Those who can't stand a little mild 'hazing' probably shouldn't be working in a war zone. Those soldiers over there with them had the living hell 'hazed' out of them for months in boot camp and AIT, one of the purposes of which is to weed out the sort who have no business possibly being deployed to somewhere they might get killed at any time, and if not be required to put up with conditions on a regular basis that very few would willingly endure.
Drinking vodka squirting out of someone's ass is what you call
mild hazing? So making someone eat feces then would prove one was tough enough for the job?
Then there's the bigger issue. Having an alcohol orgy in a Muslim country where we are walking on a tightrope with public opinion suggests an inability to adapt your 'macho' security force to different settings. A one size fits all, brute force is all that matters, mentality is one reason we aren't winning enough hearts and minds where winning hearts and minds will make the difference between winning and losing. In case you didn't notice, the failure of the US military to figure that out in Vietnam was 90% of the reason we did not prevail there.
It also suggests such a security force would be a very bad fit for a domestic assignment. And Walker clearly didn't consider the lessons learned (or maybe not learned) with hiring private security to do public policing like when Bush
hired Blackwater to police New Orleans after Katrina.
If that's all those that despise him and his politics can come up with, he's clean as a whistle. Workers for this company contributed 15k to his campaign over eight years? That's nothing and perfectly within the rights of the individuals who worked there. It also looks like workers there contributed three times that to Jim Doyle and Tom Barrett over the years as well, and as that's probably over a longer time it's still absolutely irrelevant as the money we're talking about from all these people on both sides combined wouldn't pay for pizza for all the protesters at the capitol yesterday. Oh, and it's also no surprise that the ones in the higher echelon of business tended to vote Republican and send their support to those candidates.
The campaign was for
mayor, not Congress or President.
But the main issue was not 100% straight quid pro quo corruption. The issue was a Libertarian fantasy philosophy. No doubt Walker believes in his fantasy just as many people do. But here's an example of the failure of such a belief that one can just ignore the worker and favor the rich and powerful. My guess is Walker is a rich and powerful wannabe and kisses up to that group accordingly. He was bragging to the Koch impostor about being "one of them". That reveals a lot.
