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Show THE VOICE OF BUSINESS The wisdoB?a off big) brother cirad Friends By Richard E. Lenlier, President Chamber of Commerce of die United States How would we survive without the Department of Energy? I've often noted this bureaucracy spends almost as much as the major oil companies make in profits, but has yet to strike oil. Well at least now you'll know what they do. Here's an excerpt from form CLC9004A instructing your service station sta-tion operator how much to charge you for your gasoline: "If the amount shown on Line 8 is greater than the amount on Line 1, then multiply the difference by the unit cost shown on Line 5. If the amount on Line 8 is less than the amount shown on Line 1, then go back to each succeeding delivery prior to the delivery used in computing Line 6 and add these deliveries to the amount shown on Line 6 until the total number of gallons delivered equals or exceeds the amount on Line 1. Additionally, add to Line 7 the total costs associated with these deliveries. If Line 8 now exceeds Line 1, then multiply the difference by the unit cost of the earliest delivery used to adjust ad-just Line 6..." Aren't we lucky the Post Office finally final-ly came through and got all the forms delivered before the gas crunch hit. BULLETIN TO JANE FONDA, TOM HAYDEN AND RALPH NADER You are cordially invited to promote and attend an anti-nuclear protest against a Soviet-designed system about to be built in Cuba. National Review reports a U.S. scientist believes the system "...will apparently lack two key safety features common to nuclear plants in the United States and Europe: A steel and concrete outer casing and a back-up cooling system. As a result, writes Jorge F. Perez-Lopez in Cuban Studies, a meltdown not only would be disastrous for Cubans, but could affect neighboring areas including southern Florida." Now there's a real threat. 'ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU..." Andrew Bavas tried to save taxpayers tax-payers some money but he paid the price. The Chicago-based Health, Education and Welfare executive told his superiors he didn't need their $1,272 raise-his $43,000 a year salary was quite sufficient thank you. Andrew's boss told him Civil Service regulations forbid such a refusal. But Bavas refused refus-ed again, and was ordered to a position in Philadelphia at an $8,000 cut in pay. So Bavas quit. But even then he found himself wrapped in red tape, unable to locate the proper form on which to hand in his resignation. INFLATION REMANS SCAPEGOATS CHANGP Each month I look forward h, ing who the government will ku the latest bad news on consume?1 Inflation remains, but change. Recently the meat JaP got a rare taste of what it's i? publicily grilled by the Prl himself. No one who witness ? tender confrontation report ? President acknowledging that of increase in meat prices over IK decade lags way behind increasL federal spending and taxes if? Carter does not believe the It government itself has raised m prices, maybe he should quit tj and start reading. He would findnJ are approximately: 265 statues related to the gr0nidw industry, 41,000 regulations, and ml court decisions to interpret the Ji tions affecting production, nron? and distribution. IT'S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD A California city official, writes n News and World Report, was angered by government-mandiit-paperwork that he saved all the par and reports sent to him by federal and local government over three jej. The grand total: Approxinmt 84,000 pages, or enough to fill morelie 300 novels. |
