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New I-R-S Heaven:  Reform five-two-sevens. (a limerick) (du20000629-01)
    "Reform" for the five-twenty-sevens 
    is really just aid and abettin'
    For making a nest 
    to give I-R-S 
    more space in its Big Brother Heaven.  
© 2000  --Inspired by 06-29-00 congressional passage of legislation to increase IRS authority over 527 organizations engaging in political speech.

Undisclosed Government Incentives to Media. (du20000114)
Regarding undisclosed financial incentives from the White House to the entertainment media to include government-approved, anti-drug themes in programs without identifying such action as being rewarded with government-controlled funds. (Story reported 1-13-00 and 1-14-00)
    For laudable goals to be won, 
    we sometimes don't care how it's done
    A dangerous way 
    is covertly pay 
    for persuasion with government funds.
    To those who won't listen to mother, 
    we all should be like a big brother,
    but secretive offers 
    from government coffers 
    give birth to George Orwell's Big Brother.
    Formulate public pronouncements, 
    Require public service announcements,
    but gov'ment should not 
    control writers' plots 
    with secret financial enticements 
© 2000