Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: $7400 coffepots Message-ID: <1027@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:08:16 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1027 Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:08:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:24:30 EDT References: <222@boulder.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 22 Before any more misinformation about that damn coffee pot rolls around the net, the damn pot was ordered under the Carter administration so don't put the blame on Ronnie. As far as I am concerned, it wasn't Carter's fault either. I put the blame on those idiot Specification Writers the Air Force uses. No administration can check every last detail of a procurement order. Administrations should, however, insist that the dummies who write the specs be watched closely and booted out whenever they come up with such asinine ideas. Maybe they would be a little more careful when they dream up their stupid assed designs. But, alas, the Civil Service Commission would only shed crocidile tears and protest to high heaven if such a proposal were to be floated. The blame for this type of thing goes all the way back to Roosevelt who gave the CSC the power to bring the everyday workings of the government to its knees. With the way it is set up now, it practically takes an act of Congress to get rid of incompetance. This is REALLY why we have $900 hammers and $7500 coffee pots, not the administrations. T. C. Wheeler