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Mc Mike

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13. The Joint Chiefs' procurement General said it wasn't his job to disrupt the supply chain.

Reply to underpants (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 4, 2020, 08:49 AM

Apr 2020

So the supplies 'have to' go to the private sector for a state bidding war, and the profit gouge is built in. It's built in, baked in, as unchangeable, like laws of thermodynamics or gravity.

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