stevel@haddock.UUCP (03/16/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1743200:haddock:16000009:000:920
haddock!stevel Mar 15 11:40:00 1984
What bogus unthought out numbers.
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>
I'd gladly pay my share of the station IN ADDITION to
what's already being spent for space stuff ($150 million
/ 500,000,000 people = $.30 per capita), in fact I'd
gldly pay three times that each year for the next five
years if it would get the station built sooner.
Try $1,500,000,000 dollars per year amoung (thinking non zero
growth) 250,000,000 people. That makes $6.00 per year. Twice an
order of magnitude in error. This kind of wrong numbers and lack
of being able to look at the next year is what goverment/military
planning is all about.
Did you hear the report that of major military wepons procurment
over the past 20 years only 25% were within budget. And some of
that 25% had to cut back on quantities to do it.
Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ucbvax|ihnp4}!cbosgd!ima!stevel