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Originally Posted by Fiorenza
Government agencies being tax-subsidized to support other government agencies? I love it. "What goes on close to Huntsville and Knoxville regarding the DoD and all those big government departments" is not very relevant anymore.
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If there's 3 things that are more relevant to us as a nation then anything else today, it's Missile Defense and NASA development(Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville) and the sort of development that continues to come out of Oak Ridge, outside of Knoxville.
Oh, and here's something else. The vast majority of employees at all 3 areas are actually subcontractors that work for the countless companies that are brought in by the Gov't to do the job for cheaper and more efficiently.
You can contract employees and companies to do the work of the gov't, but you can't contract say, Southern Company, to come in and do the work of TVA. We see Alabama Power and their higher rates and the like, that's not what we want if contracting out the rights to our power operations to a private entity. That would also take the local utility companies that buy from TVA in order to supply us(the end user) out of the picture, and those local utilities are vital since they give a "local" face to the needs of the people.