[Openurmind]

That is because Putin doesn’t pay $37 per screw and $640 per toilet seat. lol

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-story.html

[BobL]

“That is because Putin doesn’t pay $37 per screw and $640 per toilet seat. lol”

And they also pay their blue collar and white collar defense workers about 30% of what we pay, and probably the same for their (conscripted) troops.

That’s why it’s do damn DANGEROUS to base our national defense on Left Wing talking points.

[MeganC]

“That is because Putin doesn’t pay $37 per screw and $640 per toilet seat.”

That was simply an accounting trick to hide the expenditures for black budget programs like the B-2 bomber, the F-117, the Aurora, the Navy’s secret (redacted) class nuclear attack submarine, and etc.