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by wtbob 3732 days ago
> It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse.

> With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money.

No, it was a $15 dollar hammer with $420 of project R&D costs averaged out and added to it: http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-...

The $435 price was then inflated to $600 by the media and finally $10,000 by you.