On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:09:49 GMT, Badger
wrote:



Gerald Ross wrote:

njfbadger wrote:

Little bro came by yesterday, doing an interesting job at the moment,
seems one place is being demolished, and a lot of old hard wood is
being burnt, inc.some rose wood, teak and oak, burnt? yep gov't won't
allow it to be sold, incase someone makes a profit!
Good Lord how I hate that kind of waste, typical British Gov't/Royal
Navy attitude!

niel.

My dad used to work on an Airforce Base. They would hall piles of unused
Parachute cord to the dump on base and burn it. If you got caught taking
some of it home you were fired. Nice cord too, lots of uses on the farm.

Std. mil. bull****!

Most of this goes back to the contracts under which things are
purchased. A *lot* of military stuff is purchased at very low prices
because of the high volume. The manufacturer knows that much of it
will be used a short period of time before being "removed from
service". What they want to prevent is someone ordering a bunch of
stuff then flooding the market with lightly used material. The
military could actually mess up quite a few markets with their waste
if they were allowed to. It is nothing more than a price supports
thing.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com