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From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver)
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Subject: Re: Defense Spending and the Economy - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 03:27:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 03:27:20 1983
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#R:tty3b:-25400:hp-kirk:12800006:000:1044
hp-kirk!daver    Dec  9 17:27:00 1983

     Lets go about doing the massive project of building the battleship and
     then dismantling it as proposed.  However, as long as no one is looking,
     we can simply pretend to build the battleship.  We still pay all the 
     workers so the money gets around, but we don't have to buy any of the 
     raw materials (we can still pay the domestic miners as though they were
     actually supplying the materials but can avoid sending dollars overseas
     in the case of materials not available locally) or use any of the
     energy.  The only people doing real work are the clerks preparing
     monthly progress reports.  As long as the entire job gets done before
     congress or Jack Anderson notices what's happening no one will be the
     wiser and we will have accomplished all the good points of the project
     and not have any scrap material to have to try to get rid of (though
     we can still pay the people who would otherwise have gotten rid of the
     material).

					  Dave Rabinowitz
					  hplabs!hp-pcd!daver