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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (141989)	1/21/2002 3:36:41 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585499

There were many more things than $600 hammers....like $5k toilets or $1000 coffee makers........the list goes on and on. These are all the same things -- inexpensive items that received inordinate overhead allocations -- overhead that, had it not been allocated to these items would have been allocated, under the terms of cost+ contracts, to other items. There WERE NO $5000 TOILETS. The military pays top dollar because they have their equipment custom made every time they go out to bid Wrong. The whole point of these examples is that they were precisely the same items you could purchase at Walmart. It is complicated, I know ... but you can handle it.