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To: i-node who wrote (141993)	1/21/2002 3:52:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585592

Wrong. The whole point of these examples is that they were precisely the same items you could purchase at Walmart. I don't know about the hammers, but many other items with similar rediculous price tags did have to fit over exacting specifications and where sometimes custom made for the particular contract. The paperwork required was incredible and the whole thing was such a waste. It wasn't fraud, its not overchargeing if you are made to pay $500 each for a small custom made batch of hammers as part of a contract with an aerospace company that subcontracts with another company as part of a process that requires more weight of paperwork then the weight of the hammers, but its a waste that they where bought that way rather then the way most well run businesses would bie hammers. In some cases however I think the Pentagon was following the current legal standards of how they had to be bought so maybe you can blame congress more then the military. Tim