Re: Great Untapped Financial Resources for Space Projects

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/20/05


Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:32:56 GMT

William.Mook@gmail.com wrote:

:No. Defense spending is a very large part of total US spending yet it
:is very rare that large defense contractors for the US government
:perform as well as say a software company or a restaurant.

It better be more than 'rare', since profit margins for Defense work
are generally limited by both law and contract.

Frankly, I didn't read most of the rest of your tirade, given that
most of the rest of what I actually read had even less connection to
reality than your paragraph above.

-- 
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                                      --G. Behn


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