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10 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel's Grill
"Every time the economic news is
good, I nearly go broke," Wayne
Bruce moaned the other day.
Wayne was griping because the
mutual funds he bought for his
RRSPs took another drop that day.
Seems news
came out that
the economy
in the States is
rolling right
along and
wages are up
and the stock
buyers don't
like it because
they're
worried about
inflation.
"Interesting,"
said Dave
Winston, "that
these guys
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
who think times are tough if they
don't make $250,000 a year, get
really antsy if some guy on an assem-
bly line wants 25 cents an hour more."
"So much for the theory that you
didn't have to fight for a bigger piece
of pie, just get a bigger pie," said
Cliff Murray. "No matter how big the
pie is the rich guys want it all."
"Come on, it takes a few more
brains to make money on the stock
market than to screw on a few nuts
on an assembly line," said George
McKenzie.
"The stock market is all about
greed and fear," said Dave. "These
guys are greedy and they fear that
somebody else might make a little
money."
"Sure it's about greed and fear but
you have to know when people are
going to be greedy and when they're
going to get scared," said George.
"It's all about reading public
opinion."
"Except you can't do it with some
polling company like the election,"
said Wayne.
"Wasn't that depressing?" Cliff
said. "These polling companies go
out and interview 1,000 people and
they can predict how six or seven
million people are going to vote."
"Makes you feel useless,"
admitted George. "Seems like they
could save all the money from
elections and just have a new poll
every tour years. I hate to think we're
that predictable."
"Apparently we are," said Wayne.
"I went through a new building with
the architect one time. He told me
how people would go this way in this
place and would stop to look out a
window at the view in this spot, and
darned if they didn't do it."
"Sure not like pigs," said Dave.
"You think you've worked put a
system for moving pigs and they'll
surprise you every time."
"Does that mean humans are
smarter than pigs or pigs are smarter
than humans?" Cliff wondered.
"Maybe pigs should play the stock
market. They're unpredictable
enough they just might pick the
winners," said Wayne.
"I can rent you some if you'd like
to try," offered Dave. "Of course if
they make any money I'd want a
commission. It might be the first
money I've made off pigs in the last
year."
"Well if you're talking about
something being predictable it's the
Americans," George said. "If any
American ever loses money, they
figure it's because everybody else is
cheating. I mean all these countervail
trade hearings are getting ridiculous."
"That's free trade for you," said
Dave, knowing he'd get a rise out of
George.
"It's not free trade," thundered
George. "The Americans' idea of
free trade is they can send their cattle
anywhere but no cattle are ever supp-
osed to come across their border"
"But they saying you're dumping
product," said Wayne. "Isn't it
something about selling beef below
your cost of production."
"That's not dumping, that's
farming," said Dave.
"What I love is their method of
figuring all this out," said George.
"They do a survey of their beef
producers and find out they're selling
at a loss and they say it's our beef
hurting them. Then they do a survey
of some of our feedlots and find out
we're losing money and they say
that's evidence we're dumping. Talk
about having it both ways!"
"Sounds like Canadians," said
Cliff. "Only we want their tax system
and our social services."0