A government grant parable to ponder:
The government recently announced a new program, a grant to build housing for midgets and subsidizing their rent.
Accordingly, based on the demographics from the last official government census, we should have had six midgets living here.
Based on that, we applied for, and received enough money to finance the building of the first home and also allow the "vertically challenged" to pay less than the going rate for rent.
Turns out, however, that there was only one such person living in our town. As a result, we didn't need any more homes and had enough funding so he won't have to pay anything for the only house we built - the government grant and subsidy covered everything.
The city council has aptly named it our "Stay Free Mini Pad."
And so it goes...
Richard 
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