On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:16:36 -0600, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

On 1/3/2015 11:00 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:

I think that you are confusing "needs" and wants. Needs are food,
clothing, lodging and medical care. And the Air force feed, clothed,
and housed me and supplied free medical care when necessary, and
demanded that I perform "work" in compensation.

Which is, amazingly, just how communism worked in the so called
"Eastern Block".

If you were like many in the military, you did as little as possible to
to get those needs supplied.

Not really. Or at least I don't remember it that way. Generally you
were given a job and you worked until you finished it and then, if it
was an airplane, somebody came by to make sure you did it correctly.

Which is also much like the Eastern Block version communism:

"They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work."

David

That is specifically a Russian joke and to what extent it was
applicable to all communist countries I have no idea, but I have a
good friend that grew up in Hungary and he said that when he went to
collage, under the communists, that if you didn't get grades of a
certain level that you were dropped from school, so apparently success
was demanded in some fields.
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Cheers,

John B.