Jim:
On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
> For most of this century, government (and in particular,
> the Federal government) has been on a fast-track to expansion.
I'm glad you read some history books.
> Only quite recently has this expansion begun to slow. I was
And even read some current newspapers.
> referring to contractions to come; not to contractions (if any?)
> that have occurred in the past.
But had you learned anything from history, you would have
discovered that governments to do not contract in size.
The Strategic Helium Reserve was just one contemporary example
of how government departments hang around, totally unneeded.
xan
jonathon
grafolog at netcom.com
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