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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: rich4eagle who wrote (131087)3/10/2001 10:31:57 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Once again the rich4eagle swallows both feet whole.

rich4eagle >>>The same party that was in charge of the $100 toilet seats

As you are a techno-retard rich4eagle you do not understand that planning for all worst case war time scenarios requires that any item used by soldiers must meet defined specifications. The common practice is that a sample of the required specified items be tested to verify compliance. The lot and tested subset are then priced at the cost of testing and the original costs. As any rigorous testing costs and only hundreds of items are purchased the cost of each item may appear high. But I for one don't want any soldier who is putting his life on the line to be taken out of action because of injuries caused by a broken untested toilet seat. Their used to be one guy at the top where this would have been just desserts but he has been richly put out to pasture with the rest of the cow pies.

watman.com This link is about what happens when a few million is not spent on the proper joining of a nut and a screw. Each join has 200 screws and there are only a few dozen joints. 3 million divided by 4800 is 375 dollars a screw. The lost because of a screw-up was 60 million at a cost of 7500 a screw.
Also lost were several American Citizens.

rich4eagle you are politico-retarded as you do not understand the the DOD and the military are apolitical and the cost of items reflects what good honest smart people doing their level best believe is necessary so that a screw-up does not cost lives.

rich4eagle you are just plain retarded as you cannot comprehend that a tax cut is ceasing to continue overcharging those paying taxes and not giving all the money to the rich. You also don't understand that the poor do not squander the little money that the government gives them. But that the government squanders billions giving good paying non productive jobs to tens of thousands who debate how to dribble out pennies to hundreds of thousands who are in need.

rich4eagle there are thousands of retarded rich democrats and they can easily make up any lost pennies dolled out by the government to the poor with 1% of there income.

tom watson tosiwmee
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