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To: TimF who wrote (183442)	2/6/2006 6:26:56 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re: It was irrelevant to the point at hand. You can argue that some other point is far more important but if true it still would not make my statement incorrect. In a free market the largest customer doesn't pay the highest price. re: They are often (depending on the exact setup) a monopsony within each nations market. So? Markets don't have to be end users. Ace Hardware negotiates better prices because it is a coop, and can deliver larger sales numbers from suppliers than the ma & pa's that are their members. GE with aircraft engines, the arms suppliers... just because governments are their customer it doesn't mean it's not a marketplace. I'll let you have the last word as I know from experience this could go on for 100 (boring) posts.