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Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu talk.politics.misc:176845 soc.culture.canada:16810 Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!cos!cos!bob1 From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.canada Subject: Re: Damn Ferigner's Be Taken Over Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 93 19:24:55 GMT Article-I.D.: cos.bob1.734037895 References: Distribution: world Organization: Corporation for Open Systems 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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