[geeks] Re: [rescue] OT taxes

[Brian Dunbar]

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On Apr 19, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:

> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> That I'll pay for.  That army should not cost $xxxx/year per citizen.
>
> Then the army should stop paying $xxxx per toilet seat.  Seriously,
> Imagine how much lower our taxes would be if we eliminated the massive
> fraud, waste and abuse that persists throughout everything our 
> government touches.

The $500 toilet seat started life as a misunderstanding, IIRC.  The 
Navy needed seats to outfit a certain class of P3 Orion, there were a 
limited number of birds, and they had to  meet some extraordinary 
requirements for crash worthiness.  That's the story I head, ymmv.

I always thought the military - or at least the Marines - was very 
wasteful of time and material.  When we ramped up for Desert Storm and 
voila, most of the silly crap made sense.

The military is like a high performance engine.  Which spends most of 
it's working life idling in traffic, burning oil and being inefficient. 
  But once in a while you get to take her out on the highway and open it 
up and use it the way it's supposed to be used.

~brian