[quote]Originally posted by MagiK:
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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
Ron as I pointed out to him before, those $500 hammers were from the 70's era defense appropriations procedures that had government beauraucrats writing specs and having it illegal for the military to buy Commercial Off the shelf parts. Those issues have been mostly dead for more than 20 years (thanks to Reagan). I wish people would quit bitching about something that has been fixed for a nearly a quarter century.
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They may be "mostly" dead, but not completely, because government spending is full of waste. The examples I used were those people easily identify with and, for that reason alone, will always be valid benchmarks/reminders of governmental waste.
The bureaucracy that is our government is wasteful from the city level on up. I didn't imply the current spending was riddled with this type excess, I simply made a point. I believe defense spending
needed to be increased, but I'd like it done "without the fat". Just as I'd like everything else our government does to be "low fat".
Now if politicians could learn those hard learned lessons apply to
all aspects of governmental spending(pork barrel anyone?), and that defense isn't a "whipping boy"....
[ 10-23-2002, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]