From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:02:33 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:41cc2b65{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> > I thought there were oilfields there?
>>>
>>> Yes. Fat lot of good it does the locals. The money flows steadily out
>>> of
>>> there. Maybe some corporate managers visiting the oil fields have
>>> laptops,
>>> but I don't think the actual workers get much more than a sack of
>>> (frozen)
>>> potatoes.
>>
>> Really? When the oil companies were hiring help to work in Alaska,
>> they were paying big bucks to draw people there.
>
> Well, it was Soviet Union, so paying people wasn't all that popular idea.
> Except with Vodka, there was always plenty of that.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."

--
Gary Wiltshire

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