[yldstrk]

Uh in my book, long term assistance is linked to long term unemployment, hello.

And what say you to the $600 toilet seat sold by the contractor to the military?

[MortMan]

“Assistance” does NOT mean “Unemployment”. If you willingly or willfully misunderstand that, you are being dishonest in this debate.

That’s a red herring.

And the $600.00 toilet seat is as irrelevant to the discussion as it is (probably) excessive. (I say probably because sometimes such items are actually that costly, when they have special-purpose deployment.)

[MortMan]

The very title of this article starts with the words “Welfare Workers”, not “Unemployment Workers”, BTW.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

And what say you to the $600 toilet seat sold by the contractor to the military?

Well, if Alonzo Bodden is to believed, and he was being truthful, according to what he said on a recent Adam Carolla podcast, that "$600 toilet seat/hammer/whathaveyou" we all heard about was used to mask all the top-secret development work they were doing on the SR-71 Blackbird. Bodden used to work on that program at Lockheed as a wrencher. So there you go.

[thulldud]

And what say you to the $600 toilet seat sold by the contractor to the military?

Guess you'd rather they just junked the planes those seats were made for?

[Bob]

And what say you to the $600 toilet seat sold by the contractor to the military?

Based on my years in the navy and a year working for a government contractor, I'd estimate that $500 or so of that $600 was spent for contract compliance and government-mandated testing.