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In article <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>Facilities costs can be paid with the interest on the savings.

It's statements like this that make me wince when I read your posts. 

You can't get interest on money just because you don't spend it; if NASA
magically saves a billion dollars a year because of your schemes, the money 
*doesn't* get stuck in a bank somewhere.  In addition, you've already budgeted
the money elsewhere, so you aren't getting any absolute savings anyway.

Besides, even if we do save all the money you claim, I don't see it being a 
fair trade for scrapping chunks of the U.S. aerospace industry in favor of 
the Russian industry.  The end result will be that we'll be buying from others
forever, because it will be the Russians developing the next generation of 
hardware, and not us.  It's just not worth it.
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Matthew DeLuca
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