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From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.canada
Subject: Re: Damn Ferigner's Be Taken Over
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Date: 5 Apr 93 19:24:55 GMT
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In nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>In article bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
>>In nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>>> Norway (where you appear to be posting from) is just such a
>>> place, although it has always escaped my understanding just
>>> what the appeal, to allegedly rational people, of such a
>>> scheme might be. What gives King Olav V (or whoever it is
>>> now - my atlas is from 1987) the right to any special legal
>>> status or title based on a mere accident of birth?
>>
>>To begin with, it's quite inexpensive compared to here, what with our
>>having six former presidents still alive, drawing pensions, expense
>>accounts, and secret service protection.
> Maybe so, but they were, after all, President. In the corporate
> world it's SOP for retiring senior executives to be given nice
> pensions, etc. The point is that they performed a service and
> this is part of the compensation package. The only "service"
> royals have to perform for their free ride is being born.
We might be better off had some of our former presidents done nothing.
>---peter
>PS - . . . which is not to say that some of our presidents have
> not provided a service for the country too dissimilar from what
> occurs when a bull "services" a cow (for those of you familiar
> with cattle breeding).
>
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