We have, as I recall in this city, in Washington, DC, we have what I guess military would call headquarters personnel, because all of the agencies do not carry out functions in this city but they have their headquarters people here who issue orders and demand reports that come in from all over the Nation. So we have all these agencies like Agriculture and all the rest of them, HUD and many others, headquartered here in Washington. So I guess our line troops would refer to these as headquarters staff, and we have over 450,000 headquarters personnel in the social agencies right here in Washington, DC. Here is something that we spent, as taxpayers, your taxpayers in California and mine in Georgia, $30,000 on this poem. I am going to read this to you. Suddenly, masked hombres seized Petunia pig and made her into a sort of dense Jello. Somehow the texture, out of nowhere, produces a species of Atavistic anomie, a melancholy memory of good food. It was written by Jack Collom of Boulder, CO.
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