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From: arndt@squirt.DEC
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Subject: Billion Dollar Coffee Pots . . . yawn.
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 06:25:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 06:25:50 1985
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The point is to view the world from the perspective of one's ideology
and fit the 'facts' into that framework and from there work up a really
rightous indignation against the 'dark forces' at work among the other
trash minds who have a different ideology.  Remember, bigots sleep well
at night!  A place for everything and everything in it's place.

The $3,046. coffee maker . . . it's on a C-5 aircraft, built to carry up
to 365 troops.  Delta and TWA buy similar coffee makers for $3,107 ea.

       IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE BUT THE PRICE!!  Because that FITS of course.

The $435. claw hammer . . . there are 13 MILLION contracts let by the
Defense Department each year to over 300,000 contractors . . .this error
was caught by a Navy employee and the contractor refunded the price.  Last
year the department bought more than 80,000 claw hammers at $6 and $8 ea.

The $640. toilet seat . . . is not a toilet seat but a heavy molded plastic
cover for the entire toilet system of the P-3 aircraft.  The toilet seats
themselves cost only $9.37 ea.  The contractor refunded 85% of the cost of
the cover when the department stopped the purchase.

The $659. ashtrays . . . for the E-2C aircraft.  Grumman had to custom make
a small number for the aircraft and was losing money at that price.  The
Navy could not make the same thing for less than $900 on its own shops.
Remember automakers, making huge quantities, charge $100 for an ashtray
in your car.

VIRTUALLY EVERY SINGLE CASE OF FRAUD AND ABUSE UNCOVERED AND FLAMED BY THE
MEDIA (and in net.flame) HAS BEEN UNCOVERED BY THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S OWN
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL FIRST!!!

Ignore all the above (except for the prices) since they are not included in
'all the news (and views) that's fit to print!!

Golly, why haven't we heard about this other side to the problem, this other
perspective, this additional information about the cases sited with so much
rightous indignation in the press and the little liberal think-sync minds
abroad in the land??  BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT THE IDEOLOGY OF COURSE!!

Aren't you glad I can clear this up for you??  Of course you are.  Those who
read the 'right stuff' know where I got my information, eh?

Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt