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so they've going to let him go
anyway?"
"Well hey, you can't blame a guy
for not wanting to be bald at the
Olympics," said Dave.
"Probably he'd shave his head
anyway to cut down the wind
resistence," said Cliff. "I mean I
can't believe the lengths these guys
go to that make the difference
between winning and losing. A
hundredth of a second is all it takes."
"Kinda sounds like farming," said
Dave. "You cut your costs by 10 per
cent and you still lose money so
somebody tells you if you'd just cut
by 12 per cent, you'd have won."
"Yeh, and then you find out the
Americans are using performance-
enchancing subsidies," said Cliff.
"We're kind of in the same bind
as the athletes, aren't we?" said
George. "Look at this corn counter-
vail situation. I mean as a corn
grower, I think it's unfair that the
American farmers are sending their
corn in here at cheap prices and still
staying in business because of their
government subsidies. But as a cattle
farmer if the price of corn goes up
because of the $1.65 countervail, I'll
lose money because the Americans
are feeding their cattle cheaper feed."
"Which kind of gives in to the
argument that if one athlete is going
to cheat and take drugs, the others
have to," said Dave. "So all you
cattlemen who are always arguing
against government subsidies are
suddenly in favour of subsidies for
our corn farmers that match the
Americans so you can get cheap
feed."
"Hey, nobody ever said cattlemen
didn't understand the bottom line,"
said George.
"Nice spin control," said Dave.
"Ever thought of a career in
politics?"
"Yeh, kind of reminds me of that
story from down in Baltimore' and
Atlanta where this union was hiring
people from homeless shelters to
man picket Tines but only paying
them minimum wage," said Cliff.
"So when people complain the union
officials says 'Hey, we're giving
people jobs who wouldn't get one
any other way'."
"Who'd have thought a union
would know so much about the
bottom line," said George.°
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