Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:
>
> Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:
> >
> > > Most were sold at auction for pennies at govt surplus sales, mostly due to being
> > > "obsolete: for the puroose they served. Why not buy new all the time when it's
> > > someone else's money you're spending?
> >
> > Easy, Russ. People might think you're a libertarian or something
>
> It's jealousy really. I'm sure most of us wish we could buy top of the line machines
> for ourselves with someone else covering whatever the amount might be. I actually got
> to use some of those $250 hammers and $190 screwdrivers while I was a missile
> maintainer.
Yes, I used to sit on some of the $5000 toilet seats when I was in the
USAF. But the $190 screwdrivers broke easier than my $1.90 Craftsman.
(They wouldn't let Avionics techs have hammers -- might have encouraged
us to use them to fix the _real_ source of most of the problems, the
stick actuators [pilots]).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Sat May 23 1998 - 07:37:59 BST