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Forcing Thanksgiving Holiday Work Is The Beginning Of The End
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<blockquote data-quote="BakerMayfield2018" data-source="post: 1465438" data-attributes="member: 27370"><p>What government official dosent need a $7,000 coffee pot.I completely understand why so much is taken from my check. </p><p>Beginning in 1981, President Ronald Reagan began an expansion in the size and capabilities of the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces" target="_blank">United States armed forces</a>, which entailed major new expenditures on <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons" target="_blank">weapons</a> <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurement" target="_blank">procurement</a>. By the mid-1980s, this spending became a scandal when the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_On_Government_Oversight" target="_blank">Project On Government Oversight</a> reported that <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon" target="_blank">the Pentagon</a> had vastly overpaid for a wide variety of items, most notoriously paying $435 for a <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer" target="_blank">hammer</a>,<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> $600 for a <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_seat" target="_blank">toilet seat</a>, and $7,000 for a coffee pot.<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BakerMayfield2018, post: 1465438, member: 27370"] What government official dosent need a $7,000 coffee pot.I completely understand why so much is taken from my check. Beginning in 1981, President Ronald Reagan began an expansion in the size and capabilities of the [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces']United States armed forces[/URL], which entailed major new expenditures on [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons']weapons[/URL] [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurement']procurement[/URL]. By the mid-1980s, this spending became a scandal when the [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_On_Government_Oversight']Project On Government Oversight[/URL] reported that [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon']the Pentagon[/URL] had vastly overpaid for a wide variety of items, most notoriously paying $435 for a [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer']hammer[/URL],[URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] $600 for a [URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_seat']toilet seat[/URL], and $7,000 for a coffee pot.[URL='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission#cite_note-2'][2[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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