With labor at 23 cents an hour you'd think they'd be a little cheaper...

I'm not a big fan of the Raymarine family of marine instruments as I've never found them to be all that reliable and after sales warranty service about as enjoyable as a root canal... On the other, hand various NASA (the British budget electronics folk) and Brookes and Gatehouse instruments have performed flawlessly.

I've often wondered why...

So it was with some interest that I noticed the Raytheon name (Raytheon used to be the parent company of what is now Raymarine) come up in an article about prison labor building parts for Patriot missiles and paying as little as 23 cents an hour.

Interesting...

Listening to Graham Nash

So it goes...