The point, and there was one...
is that defense contractors and workers are not all Republican white-collar workers, and that many, in fact, are union members who are on the front lines of defense cuts.
The phrase "highly-paid" came from ER, and he was the one complaining about it, not me.
"Doesn't bother me a bit?" You have a retention problem. I am on record multiple times as opposing the bank bailouts, and have reminded people here of this more than a few times.
One typical quote from January 2012:
"The only real result of the bailouts was that the crooks were rewarded, the more responsible banks punished, and the same crap is still going on as I write this."