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2003-10-08 Home Front

Pentagon decides Chinese, Russian, Korea and Paki efforts to poliferate weapons are insufficient

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Posted by Superhose 2003-10-08 9:26:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One problem is the inability of our government to sell its surplus at anything resembling a fair price. I would suspect that there may be a regulation that limits sales if the value of the item is greater than a given percent of retail. So, to sell, the item is valued too low. Voila! You can sell your surplus.

Another is that the Federal government is so huge that it is impossible for one unit to deal efficiently with another. The ability of the Department of the Interior to transfer assets to the Department of Defense is limited, at best, and in most cases impossible to do under both law and budget regulations.

It points out the dramatic necessity to reduce the size of government. With all our laws and regulations and policies, we still can't get common sense things done in government. It's just too big.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-10-8 9:54:19 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-10-8 9:54:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Please, tell me this was an FBI sting. Please."

Amen to that. I don't know if it's feasible but if some sort of tracking device could be attached to these items as they move around the world, it might point us n the direction of bad guys.

Did we do that? Nah, proly not.

Posted by JDB 2003-10-8 9:39:36 PM|| 2003-10-8 9:39:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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