[Milsurplus] Re: surplus ships fleet

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Peter
Good argument.
Next step is to contact your representatives in Washington and get them
to stop the scraping all of that surplus equipment.
Now that the liberals are out of power, it should be pretty easy!
Jim

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:49:03 -0500 Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net>
writes:
> Very interesting.  Like today, policies were likely driven by 
> lobbying and maybe 
> Eimac didn't lobby as well as they made tubes.  Or it might simply 
> have been 
> that the tubes were considered inconsequencial.
> 
> I think this is a crock and amounts to a giveaway to defense 
> contractors at the 
> expense to the taxpayer.  The taxpaying public paid for that 
> equipment and as 
> such I would expect that the government attempt to get as much use 
> as possible 
> from it.  If it is deemed surplus to needs or obsolete, it should be 
> sold at 
> auction for the highest possible price, even if scrap.  The 
> government is not 
> there for the contractors, it is there for the people of this 
> country.
> 
> Peter