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Unisys Gets DHS Contract Worth Up to $750 million
feamsr00 writes "In an affirmation of its business relationship with Unisys Corp., the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million.
Some controversy erupted in the fall after it was reported that the government was auditing a Unisys contract because the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime. TSA is a division of the Homeland Security department.
Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington."
They don't have to make things much safer, they only have to make people feel that things are much safer now.
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It's nice to know Unisys's heart-warming corporate culture hasn't changed over the past few years. Ah yes, I remember well the days of the great GIF Patent Shakedown indeed! Bastards.
Don't be so certain the experts are getting paid big bucks. It's likely the vast majority of this money will be lost in planning, overhead, and infrastructure--the CEO, the VPs, and the executive board. If any jobs are created for it there will be two middle managers and six entry level desk clerks. That's what $750 million buys for the taxpayers.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
What is that, like 100000 per cent?
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When 3 people give up rights to 1 person, it is pretty easy control. When we have just 800 nationally elected officials handling the rights of 300 million, what do you expect? That is 375,000:1 ratio or so (counting underage too).
Here's the root of the problem: abuse of Constitutional authorized power combined with what is NOT voter apathy but citizen time value. A billion dollars is only $1 per day per citizen: you and I are not going to fight tooth and nail to get rid of a billion dollar contract. Yet a small group of 5 CxO's from Unisys will. Money is not the problem, the corrupt political structure of the federal government is.
Voting is not going to change the structure: those 5 CxO's will happily work with whoever is in power. We've already given UP those powers, there is no taken them back.
If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401Ks and put it into your own business or local businesses you have control of (and actually profit from!). Take your money out of the bank and pay off all your debt -- whatever is left over is perfectly safe in gold or silver. Talk to your employer and see if you can become a contractor and find ways to write-off as much as possible under the tax code. Don't take loans, don't have a credit card, don't be concerned with social security and medicare. You can do it on your own, and you can stop supporting the monsters in office.
Unisys is not the bad guy here: they are taking advantage of the system the voters put in place.
Just because they're getting tons of contracts doesn't mean their suggestions are being put into production. I'm sure more than one security expert has said "get rid of this app" or recommended some better method, and then was either refused or the idea was abandoned after two weeks because it was "too hard".
When I worked for Unisys about 4 years ago, they had 32 way xeon machines. They were the company that provided the biggest windows server, OEM to HP too. Not that I'm saying it's necessarily a great product, but do give them some credits.
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If you want to see changes, do it with your life as I did. Take your money out of the stock market and 401KsIf you are stupid enough to follow his advice you deserve what you get. While I agree that social security and medicare will not be there for me (I am 23) despite the fact I pay into these programs, not having investments for your future beyond retirement is idiotic. Gold is not the answer. If you don't trust stocks, invest your 401k's in bonds (and lose out on returns... but have the warm fuzzies knowing you didn't take a risk). I have my finances worked out such that I will be able to retire early and live off the interest, minus inflation - leaving an estate to donate as I see fit and money to pass on to my children when I feel they are ready upon my death.
(and actually profit from!).I profited well off of my 401k's and stocks. The lifetime trend of the stock market is about 9% a year. (8 years to double your money on an across-the-board distribution, better if you invest wisely.) You can't do much better than that. Small companies are hit and miss. Hit and do a lot better, miss and lose it all. (Not to mention harder to get your money out if an emergency comes up)
Talk to your employer and see if you can become a contractor and find ways to write-off as much as possible under the tax code.
Learn the tax code - there are a lot of things you can do to write off taxes without being a contractor if that isn't an option.
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Um, I looked at your resume, and may I offer you some helpful hints. 1. What did you do at university for a year before you moved to a different uni to study civil engineering? 2. Do you think adding your religious affiliations will assist you in landing a job? 3. Whilst you may have an ethical issue with Unisys (I have ethical issues with several companies myself) it probably isn't wise to be broadcasting your distaste with a company while working there AND hoping someone reads your CV. The question any employer will ask is "will you diss our company while working for us?".. better that you quit in clear conscious and then look for a new job. 4. Is six sigma white belt going to mean anything..? Perhaps eliminate from your CV all those things you started and didn't get more than 25% of the way through (such as six sigma training, a year at uni).. leaving those things in will not inspire an employer who would want you to be completing what you start.
Gold is a lousy investment. Don't let the receant upswing fool you, unless this defies history, it's only temporary. Gold has been right around $400 an ounce for over two decades. Well, $400 bought you a whole lot more in 1980 than it does now. It flucuates up and down, of course, it's been as low as $264 and as high as $900, but only temporarily. Actually, if you discount the peak in 1980 it's never gone for above $650 which was in 1981.
So while it's something you can make money on trading in the short term, like any commodity, holding it in the long terms seems to be a bust. Had you bought in 1985, your gold would be worth maybe $100 more per ounce in absolute terms, but in relitive dollars it'd be worth less due to inflation.
It's a fairly stable medium, in that it's unlikely to ever truly crash and devalue totally, but you can find things nearly as certian that will at least keep up with inflation.