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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Is this company breaking the law with it's employees?
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 09:30:32 EST
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> Have you ever heard of the United States Army?  40 hours is hardly what
> they expect (although one might argue that the army is 0 hours of work
> and all the other hours of putting up with ********).  The army does not
> require your knowledge to send you somewhere.  Also, if you have ever heard
> an army recruiter (no, not all recruiters, just the ones I was dumb enough
> to listen to), you know that verbal lies dont bother the conscience of them
> as long as they get their quota.  And they are telling them to primarily
> young (age 17-19) folks (cant get much less experienced than that).  It's
> not that I'm against the army, I just enjoy drawing the analogy.  What's worse
> is that you (and I) are paying for them to do this.  Oh well.......

I've now forgotten where I heard it, but someone recently made the
clever remark that "you know the government has gotten out of hand
when they start doing things that are illegal for private citizens to do."