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Just because you pay someone a lot of money does NOT mean that you'll get the equivalent value in return. You can pay anyone a lot of money, hell, pay it to me. At least I promise to appreciate it.

Our current administration likes to take people who have been paid a lot of money in the past and pay them more. It's a theme with them. It helps if the job they're being overpaid for is somehow faintly related to work they might have done in the past. The kid who worked on the campain making the ass statements about NASA, the former FEMA chief, those are good examples of "W'all he looks lahk a decent sorta guy, let's give him a trahy" mentality of our current president.

Lets take a look-see at the current bio for Donald "Andy" (Andy? - why does everyone in the administration have to have nick-names?) Purdy Jr the current director of Homeland Security for Cyber Security.

1. Getting paid $577,000 for 2 years ($245,481 from the government, $43,320 from Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Technical background: Attourney. Has held previous jobs in state and federal legal positions... and has some management skills.
3. No formal technical background in computer security.

That's right. None. He's been on the job now for 21 months, and to my assessment (and several members of Congress) the guy fucking blows chunks, as does the department in general.

He also claims he can get paid better in the private sector. Well I'm sure, given that his resume now has Cybersecurity Chief on it. Personally now that his contract is up for a review I think it's a good time to take him up on that.

For my money I'd hire someone that actually HAS a technical degree to manage the position. But hell, that's just me. Oh, as an aside - Carnegie Mellon has contracts with the government for cyber-security related work. $411 million actually. Pretty keen eh?