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**[email protected]** · October 12th, 2006, 03:33 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

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Er, no - you are confusing at least three different type of entities.
General Motors, the Catholic Church (buggery or otherwise), and the UAW
are for-profit organizations (regardless of US taxation status - meaning
that they expect, even demand, that the purse, regardless of "the
books," show more at the end of year than at the start). Enron ain't
anything. And any military is arguably, by definition, "run amok"
because you really can't politely or cheaply kill people and break their
**** according to nice little formulas - the budget is subject to wild
swings (and no, I'm not defending _all_ expenditures). The
aforementioned, with the exception of militaries, might have or have had
bureaucracies, but at the end of the day, there has got to be some
semblance of making money.

OTOH, neither the IRS or the SSA really has to even pretend to answer
the same questions or the same produce "profit" such as public
corporations or a military force.

As to the IRS compared to the SSA, it makes the SSA look like a bunch of
pickpockets in a diamond mine.

I believe that for the majority of the folks steamrollered by one or
more
of these, the distinctions you draw are largely moot. And all of them
share an overriding similarity: their primary motive is
self-preservation
and perpetuation. All else is secondary.