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From: trc@houti.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Smile and say . . .
Message-ID: <299@houti.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 17:15:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: houti.299
Posted: Fri Jun 10 17:15:36 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 12:55:26 EDT
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Did you all catch the "cheese scandal" on the news?  It seems that someone
has been stealing cheese intended to be given to the poor, and selling
it to restaurants.  I couldnt help but laugh.  My taxes and yours were
already gone, so far as any benefit I might get from it.  And yet the 
commentator decried the theft of taxpayers money.  I do not condone the
actions of the thieves, but at the same time, it seems like a small bit
of poetic justice - there would not be any wasteful cheese surplus if it were
not for government subsidies,  nor would there have been the opportunity 
for the thieves if there hadnt been a giveaway program.  While I doubt that 
the thieves had the same motives, I was reminded of Ragnar Danneskjold, 
the pirate of "Atlas Shrugged", who took only relief shipments bound for
"People's States", which he counted as having been stolen from the productive 
to support the unproductive.

	Tom Craver
	houti!trc