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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: 7X difference on weapons??
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 08:30:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 08:30:50 1984
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The Soviet defense budget is a fraction of the US's because war is
labor-intensive, and Soviet labor is cheap.  Besides which, the
government can determine the budget by adjusting prices (rather than
adjusting acquisitions) :-)

					David Rubin