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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
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Subject: Economics
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This appeared in the April issue of "Reason".

	Mystery solved!  Ever wonder why Soviet department
	stores are empty while those in capitalist countries
	are full of merchandise?  Well, a Latvian educator
	has answered the riddle in a Soviet publication.

		People in capitalist countries do not
		earn enough money to buy such products
		and therefore they remain on the
		shelves.  The income of the Soviet people
		has been rising steadily so that now they
		can buy everything they desire.  It is
		the buying power of the Soviet people
		that keeps store shelves empty.


The same issue had an adjoining cartoon posing the following riddle:

	Q:  What weapon system is absolutely impervious to attack?
	A:  One with components from all 435 congressional districts!
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			 	Bob Peirce
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