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sday, August 3, 1983 - North Shore News

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SOME THINGS seem so important, and others [If you can live on air, you
don’t. And‘then, when you re-examine the issues,
they seem important in reverse.

Like, what matters more?
The blossoming of Chrysler,
which is a symptom of the
return of the Big Three,
meaning the American auto
giants, turning back the tide
of Japanese imports?

Or do I mean the brief
resurgence of the
breatharian movement, with

its unfortunate media
fallout? ;
Chrysler is looking good at

a time when the Japanese.are
having to accept a smaller
slice of the Canadian auto
import pie, American cars

still being the thing from a .

Canadian point of view,
unless you accept the bizarre
notion that Windsor, On-

tario, is not
Canada.

I used to wonder, back
when I was into my na-
tionalist phase, why wasn't
there such a thing as a Cana-
dian car? And, you know
what? It séemed important
at the time. :

But then, so
breatharianism, at
point.

In all seriousness, you say,
how can the significance of
the North American auto in-
dustry be equated with living
on air? I mean, the ultimate
freeloader gig?

If you can live on air, who
needs to work? For that mat-
ter, who needs to buy a car?

a part of

did
one

can beat the whole system.
You can tell everyone to get
stuffed.

Appreciating the deep
nuances of the breatharian
movement, I was therefore
not happy to read recently
that the ace breatharian in
North America had been
busted for allegedly skoffing
junk food late at night.

’ Especially since this came
at a moment in history when
Chrysler has just struck
back, promising to pay off
$800 million in U.S. govern-
ment loans, seven years
ahead of time.

I notice that Lee Iacocca,
the president of Chrysler, is
still hanging on to a couple
of hundred million bucks
worth of unused loan
guarantees from the Cana-

dian government, but why
get into a negative space
about something so
miraculous as @ turn-around
in the American auto in-
dustry, bastion of -all our
well-being? ,

This may be the 1980s, but
isn’t it still more or less true
that what's good for General
Motors (or one of its serious
competitors) is good for
America and her satellites as
a whole?

I'm not knocking
American satellite status, by
the way. Think of the alter-
natives!

Breatharianism. Auto- .
mobiles. The connection,
please? . ” =

Well, it’s this. If it was tru-
ly possible to live on air
alone, there would be no

need whatsoever for any

kind of economic system,
neither of the left-wing nor
right-wing variety.

You'd be able to stick with
the saying attributed to the
philosopher Herbert
Spencer, who said: “The
least government is the best
government.” (There is a

context for_Bill_ Bennett,

boys and girls. Hate to say it,
but..... )

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What happens to Chrysler |
is important. I mean, jobs
are involved. Mass purchas-
ing power. Votes in Central

But so is what happens to -
the breatharians! Like it or ~!
not, they are a part of our *
history.

If somebody comes up to
you and says, -hey, I don't
need nothing but air to get
by, what can you say? Why
argue?

In a way, wouldn't you
want to congratulate the
fellow? Look at all the effort
Chrysler goes through to. -
keep its armies of workers:
satisfied. That is, satisfied to
the point of not killing each-.:
other. .

If they were breatharians,
do you think for a moment.
they'd show up at the :
assembly line at 6 a.m.?
Every.day? Year after year? ~

Not a chance.

Give the breatharians a ..
break.- They're. humanity's
only hope. Because there's |
only going to be a free lunch *
if you don't have to eat.

You see how it all hangs
together?

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