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To: Selectric II who wrote (9493)	11/10/2001 12:24:51 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Horse Feed Re: Wait until we get the bill for air-dropped horse feed: Guessing $600/bale of hay. For comparison sake, we just got 4 ton of high quality hay delivered for $125/ton. A "bale" can be anything from 45 pounds to 1,500 pounds. How outrageously expensive were you considering this stuff to be? agnews.tamu.edu At a standard $600 toilet seat rate comparable, DoD is buying 30 kilo bales, I reckon. Re: Not complaining; if it does the job, it's worth ten times as much, $6,000/bale. Well, considering the parlous state of our nation's infrastucture and social spending, I'm going to have to take exception to this notion that profligate waste and utter disregard of competing economic alternatives ought to be part of DoD's perogative. Great Britain went broke trying to fight too many imperial wars and skirmishes on distant shores. $6K bales would go a few steps in this direction for our own treasury. Besides which, the pols keep telling me it's our money and not the federal government's. If indeed that's the case, I'm not bidding a penny over $200/ton for remote delivery. <g> -R.

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