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To: John Koligman who wrote (2533)	10/30/2007 12:16:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Sure weapons are expensive. That's true but relatively meaningless as support for your false argument that " When it comes to things like advanced weapons money seems to 'be no object'..." In fact the per unit costs are much higher because money is an object and there are such limits. If money where no object than we would have bought a lot more than a couple of dozen B2s and we would have had a much larger purchase of F22s. The per unit price with R&D included would plummet, as the R&D gets expensed over many more units, and as economies of scale in production are realized. You can argue that we should spend less on defense, but that isn't what you claimed. You claimed that money was no object in that area, and idea that isn't just wrong it silly.