>A guy stopped at a local gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
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>One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on.
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>The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.
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>The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the road. "I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can into a trash container and heading down the road toward the men.
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>"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me
>what's going on here with all this digging and refilling?"
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>"Well, we work for the government and we're just doing our job," one of the men said.
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>"But one of you is digging a hole and the
>other fills it up. You're not accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"
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>"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us: me, Rob and Larry. I dig the hole, Rob sticks in the tree, and Larry here puts the dirt back.
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>Rob's job's been cut... so now it's just me and Larry.