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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: $7400 coffepots
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:08:16 1984
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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