Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: 7X difference on weapons?? Message-ID: <441@fisher.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 08:30:50 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.441 Posted: Wed Dec 5 08:30:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:57:36 EST References: <34700004@uiucuxc.UUCP> <1@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 6 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