{"id":196054,"date":"2008-05-27T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/carlyle-group-to-buy-split-booz-allen-yep-i-worked-for-them\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T21:35:00","slug":"carlyle-group-to-buy-split-booz-allen-yep-i-worked-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/carlyle-group-to-buy-split-booz-allen-yep-i-worked-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlyle Group to Buy\/Split Booz Allen (Yep, I Worked for Them*)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/21\/AR2008052102775.html\">Carlyle group will buy Booz Allen and spin off their commercial business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 75% of their staff, and so I would assume business is in government services, and they thought that the two groups were going in different directions, particularly after 911, when government work ramped up rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that a Democrat gets into the white house, my guess is that they will one day rue this decision, as the privatization of is a racket, and if it is reviewed by anyone other than right wing ideologues, it&#8217;s going to be cut back significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we all know about my predictive powers.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I worked at United Defense for two years, which was owned by the Carlyle Group, and then a year more at BAE Systems, which bought them out. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Carlyle group will buy Booz Allen and spin off their commercial business. About 75% of their staff, and so I would assume business is in government services, and they thought that the two groups were going in different directions, particularly after 911, when government work ramped up rapidly. Assuming that a Democrat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}