From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 13:28:10 PDT
At 12:52 PM -0700 8/26/03, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>I don't understand where the 8x multiplier comes from. It seems to
>me that if you sell one widget to the government, that's at most one
>widget that you wouldn't sell to another consumer, many years later,
>after the government has beaten the tar out of that widget and
>released its well-used remains in a surplus auction. Even with
>quantity discounts for a big government purhcase vs. a bunch of
>small civilian purchases, I don't see how an 8x price
Wouldn't there be a nice parts market for said widgets that were
never really that interesting to the bread and butter civilian market
anyhow?
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