Fight for job leaves Stephen Patrick idle and on the federal payroll

You've heard the calls all year from politicians and the public: Government needs to go on a diet. The Obama administration says it is reining in waste. Republicans itching to run Washington say they'll rein it in more.

They haven't met Stephen Patrick.

Patrick, 43, used to have one of the federal government's more arcane jobs: driving nuclear materials around the country in unmarked convoys to support the nation's weapons stockpile. He makes $47,000 a year. He is a former cop and Marine who rides a Harley — and does not like bureaucracies too much.

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Michael A. Fletcher 10 Oct, 2011

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