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14 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel
's Grill
"I give up!" said Mabel one day
throwing up her hands. She was
talking about her rule against dis-
cussing politics and religion around
the tables of The Grill. "When
ou've got a U.S. election, a local
municipal
election,
school board
elections and
now they call
a federal
election, how
the heck can
people talk
politics."
"Yeh," said
George
McKenzie,
"politics is
sort of like the
rain this
summer —
once it gets
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at MabeI's
started you can't get it stopped."
"Yep, this year the trick or
treating isn't going to end on October
31," said Dave Winson. "We'll have
people begging at our door right
through to the end of November."
"Yeh, but it will be harder to pull
their mask off to see who's really
underneath," said George.
"Well I know they're going to
trick us into voting for them, but
what are the treats they've offering?"
wondered Cliff Murray.
"Haven't you heard about the tax
cuts?" said Molly Whiteside as she
brought Dave some bacon and eggs.
"They're all going to be bragging
about who's got the biggest one."
"And they say size doesn't
matter," said Dave.
"Who said that? Some guy no
doubt," said Molly.
"Well a tax cut isn't going to do
me a heck of a lot of good this year,"
said Cliff. "They can give me a one -
hundred -per cent tax cut and it won't
mean an extra nickle in my pocket
with the prices the way they are."
"I kind of liked the old days when
they bought your vote by doing
something for you," said Dave. "I
mean only the rich guys are getting
anything out of this kind of promise.'
"What did you have in mind,"
asked George.
"How about $7 corn again," said
Cliff. "I kind of liked those good old
days."
"I don't think you're going to get
too many politicians offering to help
farmers out during this election
campaign," said Dave. "I think
they've all got agriphobia."
"You mean agrophobia — fear of
open spaces," said Molly.
"I mean agriphobia, fear of any-
thing to do with farmers," said Dave.
"Look, the last thing we need
from a government is more
interference in the open market," said
George.
"Funny you weren't saying that
when cheap Australian beef was
coming into Canada," said Dave.
"To me, the less government the
better. If we get rid of the whole
darned bunch we'd be better off,"
said George.
"Then who would you have to
blame everything on," said Molly.
"Waitresses!" snapped George.
"Without government, who'd send
you your cheques?" jibed Wayne
Bruce:
"Obviously you aren't a farmer or
you'd know there haven't been many
cheques lately," said Cliff.
"See, what good is the govern-
ment?" said George. "It's just a big
bunch of fat cats we have to carry
around on our backs. If we could get
rid of it we could all live a lot better.
Get government off the shoulders of
the farmers, off the shoulders of
business people."
"How'd you get in here today?"
asked Molly.
"I drove, of course," said George.
"And didn't the government
provide the roads?" asked Molly.
"At great expense," said George.
"If we had private enterprise build
the roads they could do it far
cheaper."
"And how do you pay for it?"
asked Molly.
"How about tolls?" said George.
"Like that toll highway down near
Toronto."
"It's not so easy," said Wayne. "I
used that road one time and they sent
me a bill. I didn't pay it until the
government said they wouldn't
renew my licence until I did. Seems
business doesn't mind if the
government is a bill collector."0