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- rebotfc, on 01/06/2009, -0/+71Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they're really nice. Are they government issue, or do all you guys go, like, to the same store to get them?
- spyd3rweb, on 01/07/2009, -7/+67My love for the Constitution, liberty and protecting people's rights would instantly disqualify me.
- Aurabolt, on 01/07/2009, -2/+62You didn't reply to any comment and I can't find who you're talking to...
I dugg you for the randomness. - trsitton, on 01/06/2009, -4/+61Wait, how are they able to expand so much in this economy?
Oh right, it's the government. - dougbot, on 07/14/2009, -10/+62like circle jerking?
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you're everything that's wrong with digg. - perryc, on 01/06/2009, -3/+34I wonder how many of these 850 will be double agents
- harrythe3rd, on 01/07/2009, -3/+31Hoping to be assigned to the x-files... with Scully
- replaysMike, on 01/06/2009, -1/+26I'd like to be part of your cyber-alert division that monitors porn. Someone has to keep an eye on it, think of the children.
- SheilaNoya, on 01/06/2009, -2/+27Do I get a secret decoder ring and some x-ray specs?
- zephc, on 01/07/2009, -0/+22more like the SEXXX-Files, amirite? no need to answer, i know i am
- SpykerSpeed, on 01/07/2009, -0/+21I've just printed a ton of money! Who wants to work for it?!
- Penhollow, on 01/07/2009, -1/+22Sorry, you're too late. I hear that position was just filled in by some anthropomorphic bear.
- Adelhas, on 01/07/2009, -0/+20Except as of this posting, your parent has 8 diggs and not a single bury?
- jsdratm, on 01/07/2009, -1/+17I applied about 6 months ago and it is hard. You have to pass a very rigid physical test and stay in shape throughout your career. Running 1/4 mile in a certain amount of time is one of the requirements, as well as doing something like 40 situps in a minute. I gave up after that and kept my software engineering job.
You also have to work 50 hours a week at around $50-60k a year and pretty much need a 4 year degree. - Steeple, on 01/07/2009, -0/+16proud motto "not quite as evil as the CIA" (agent gives weak smile and half hearted thumbs up)
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -2/+17Would they be willing to re-open the X-Files?
- akchrs, on 01/07/2009, -1/+16comment forwarded to www.fbi.gov/
- starmanfalls, on 01/07/2009, -0/+13Well the war on drugs has been a money maker for them. Oh and that smuggeling thingy too.
- DoogieHowitzer, on 01/07/2009, -0/+13A friend of mine applied to be a field agent there, but ended up going to a different 3-Letter in the end. He said that its like Highway Patrol officers. There aren't standard issue mustaches, just a kind of pervasive culture where everyone ends up looking kinda the same.
- tmyprod, on 01/07/2009, -1/+11That headline sounds familiar...
http://consumerist.com/5124102/like-to-wear-a-suit ... - Steeple, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10you also have to call yourself "special agent" without dying of embarrassment
- Jeremyz0r, on 01/07/2009, -1/+1147.
- tavallai, on 01/06/2009, -4/+14Awesome. Bring in a bunch of people during a downturn. Nothing like hiring a bunch of people desperate for money for law enforcement. Mercs, anyone?
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -7/+16I wanna be a part of FBI but maybe they will reject me.
- MadOgre, on 01/07/2009, -0/+9I'm applying - and so going to investigate Mr. Babyman.
- Eskinsaurus, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8Would you really ask without reading the article?
"The FBI's unexpectedly large number of job openings results more from attrition and a wave of retirements than from growing government appropriations, Bureau officials told CNN." - inactive, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8All that monopoly money that just came off the presses! DUH!
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -1/+9if a chick sleeps with 5 guys a day is she a whore?
- solid12345, on 01/07/2009, -1/+8Does the FBI need a graphic designer? Because that generic blue photoshop craquelure filter background on it's "FBI Warning: Do not Copy" message on DVDs needs to go, talk about ancient!
- Frosty12, on 01/07/2009, -1/+8FTA: "The FBI's unexpectedly large number of job openings results more from attrition and a wave of retirements than from growing government appropriations, Bureau officials told CNN."
- zombiedepot, on 01/07/2009, -3/+10I'll only join if they decide to reopen the X-Files.
- SilverBlade2k, on 01/07/2009, -2/+8Does the U.S Government know something that we don't, and is preparing with a mass-hiring?
- Ogopogo, on 01/07/2009, -0/+6relocate to Beijing.. the Chinese gov't is now hiring Internet 'porn' censors
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -2/+8You too can join the Gestapo and oppress your countrymen!
- synapz, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7You're falling victim to a common economic fallacy. Henry Hazlitt describes it very well in "Economics in One Lesson". I recommend it to you.
The problem with your argument is twofold. One, the money taken from society in the form of taxes is simply redirected, and would have gone to forming jobs anyway. This could have happened either directly or indirectly: employers could have used the money taken from them to expand their business and hire new employees, or the money could have been spent by consumers, moved into the pockets of producers, who could then expand their business and hire new producers. It is noteworthy that in either case, money ends up in the hands of the people who perform the best service at the lowest cost for consumers (you and me). These people expand their business, while poor producers of goods and services must improve their business or find other employment. Two, government has no way to know what jobs to create that will most satisfy society. Should they hire more police officers? FBI agents? Bridge builders? They have no way to know because they cannot determine what members of society would want to spend their money on, to put it simply (Mises went into a much better explanation).
Government is just an inept and completely uninformed middle man that takes a huge cut. Why we are keeping it is entirely beyond me. - cowman80i9, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7No it wouldn't
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7Sex-files...in Scully.
- shig, on 01/07/2009, -0/+6That, and getting up before 6am would do me in. I'm not a morning person, and G-men love a good raid before breakfast.
- graphak, on 01/07/2009, -0/+6FB Aight
- synapz, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7Furthermore, your argument does not explain this concept of "money multiplication" you offered, which is, I suppose, why you left it in quotes at the end of your statement. Ignoring inflation for the moment (since you speak only of taxation), if the government obtains one dollar through taxation, spends that dollar on an employee, and the employee spends that dollar in the market, you're left with only a dollar in circulation. I fail to see any "multiplication" of money here.
- stklaw, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7Seek medical attention now.
- spacerobot, on 01/07/2009, -2/+7I call the special agent job. I'll apply for it right after I change my name to Jack Bauer.
- CoFRBrutus, on 01/07/2009, -2/+7An FBI Special Agent starts out at $83K - $108K and that does not include locality pay which ranges from about 13% - 30% depending on where you live.
- Eskinsaurus, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5I don't see how an increase of special agents can "only" be explained by some ominous agenda to expand invasive law enforcement practice(at least, that's what I inferred from your reply). Special agents have various duties, they aren't the Gestapo. "Officials note at least a few jobs are currently available in every one of the FBI's 56 field offices across the nation." This doesn't seem like an amount that attrition couldn't account for.
- insinuate, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5I wanna be Brock Samson, forget some suits. Gimme a knife.
- tmyprod, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5yes, but dirkdiggler1337 isn't quoting The Consumerist, and that's the problem.
- solid12345, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5I want to believe.
- yocouchdigga, on 01/07/2009, -2/+7depends, is she on film? If so, where can I watch it?
- Xcel, on 01/07/2009, -2/+7I could have applied as a linguist. I speak, read, and write Polish fluently.
But I've smoked marijuana in the past 3 years.
Damn. - 69fezz96, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5Leave your soul at the door.
I'm sorry but any government agency that calls the Founding Fathers "Terrorists", I've witnessed them spewing this B.S., is not anywhere that a human being should go to work.
I suppose they are justified with that statement, if you are still loyal to the Crown. -
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