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and just to kind of give you a little anecdote to think about this, i worked somewhat with ben cohen who was then from ben & jerry's ice cream, and in talking to ben about what's the sort of secret success there, he says look, the way we keep our costs low is we scrutinized every single penny around logistics and rent and distribution and refrigeration and manufacturing and sales and marketing and finance. we never cut a flavor. we never got a flavor but it seems to me in a military we're talking about cutting the flavor, cutting weapons systems, that we sort of going there first because those are big and easy. it's easy to get cherry garcia. it's hard to act, to go to the real pain and suffering of getting into the overheads. now, what would be involved in actually getting into overhead? what's involved is, i mean, two or three things. first of all, effectively restructuring major parts of the pentagon budget into a managerial accounting system, which means instead of just looking at everything in terms of salaries and inputs, looking in terms of activities. because the savings are n

and just to kind of give you a little anecdote to think about this, i worked somewhat with ben cohen who is ben from ben & jerry's ice cream. in talking to ben about the sort of ultrasuccess there. he said the way we keep our costs low, we scrutinize every penny around logistics and rents and distribution and refrigeration and manufacturing and sales and marketing and finance, but we never cut a flavor. we would never cut a flavor. it seems to me in the military we are talking about cutting the flavor, cutting end strength, cutting weapons systems. we're sort of going there because those are big and easy. it's easy to cut cherry garcia. but it's harder to go through the real pain and suffering of getting into the overheads. now what would be involved in actually getting into overhead? what's involved is -- i mean, two or three things, first of all, effectively restructuring major parts of the pentagon budget into a managerial accounting system which means instead of just looking at everything in terms of salaries and inputs, looking in terms of activities because the savings are not t

ben, thanks for coming in today. >> thank you. >>> up next, we're "on the money." when conflict zones heat up around the globe, what's the economic and political impact here at home? former defense secretary william cohen is here. >>> and who knew crime fighting was so lucrative? how batman is still taking down bad guys and turning a profit rat an age when most of us would be enjoining our golden years. >>> as we head to a break look at how the stock market ended the week. >>> temperatures are rising in several parts of the world from israel to ukraine. the u.s. is trying to keep up but how much can be done and what's the impact. joining us is normer senator and secretary of defense under bill clinton. william cohen. mr. saek tear thanks for joining us today. >> good to be with you. >> is it me or is the world definite a more dangerous place than it was five years ago. >> i think it's must have more dangerous. you've seen various spots around the world, certainly, in the middle east, iraq, afghanistan, syria, also, ukraine. so, it's a much more dangerous place because we've seen what i would call the democratization of terror. weapons are now in the hands of nonstate actors. those nonstate actors don't