Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> in article cauqgu$qvh$2@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/18/04 10:25 PM:

>>> Remember, that in a government contract, the payments received are not aid
>>> but merely compensation for goods or services received.
>> 
>> Correct.
>> 
>> And pray, how many of these poor have the advantage of selling things to
>> the government.

> Any such advantage is counterbalanced by the value of the goods or services.

On which he makes a profit.

Mike