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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 06:00 PM
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7. Excellent - but it has the feel of the 50's when Ike got generous and
gave the poor a block of cheese, powdered milk, and no name vegie oil in lieu of any money - and called it a win-win since it cut the government's cost of storage for these items that were piling up under the surplus food generating price supports for farm corporations that existed at that time.

It really paid to be poor in the 50's! :-)
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