Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Balanced Budget Amendment Message-ID: <316@kontron.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 18:14:17 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.316 Posted: Tue Jul 2 18:14:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:39:37 EDT References: <208@cmu-ri-isl1.ARPA> <638@ihlts.UUCP> <491@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 26 > In article <638@ihlts.UUCP> lied@ihlts.UUCP (Bob Lied) writes: > >> If you are @b(really) serious about lowering the deficit then read any of the > >> books and reports put out by the Grace Commission. I mean over $400 million in > >> savings in three years makes the stuff they are doing pretty pathetic. > > > >Make me laugh. Four hundred million dollars lasts the DoD from about > >8:00 to lunchtime. We could cut $10 *B*illion off the budget by just > >shutting down the Pentagon for a week. > > I was hoping somebody else would catch this, but I guess it's up to me. > The report of the Grace Commission stated that the Feds could save $450 > BILLION over three years by instituting ordinary auditing and cost > accounting practices in the purchase of military hardware. The report > remains controversial, but I'd sure like to see them try it. > The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Speaking of military procurement (yes, it does sound like a criminal offense, doesn't it?), I have an example of efficiency in government for you all. We were all sitting around the office the other day looking at _Commerce_ _Business_ _Daily_, the government's list of things they want to buy, and after getting a good laugh of the section "Nuclear Ordnance", we noticed a request to supply the armed forces with 43 million rounds of 5.56mm rifle ammo. The per unit price was a little over 17 cents a round. Gee, I can buy the same stuff in quantity 1000 for 14 cents a round. I guess the price break for quantity goes negative above 10 million units.