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  As things go, it was a sweet deal! He was in the hurricane business, and lately, business had been great! By his contributions, and his absolute allegence to the cause, he had become the first contractor that FEMA called, whenever there was a need for a contractor! Yeah, it was looking like just another day of payoffs, and high wire acts. But you know, he thought, I can make a lot more, if I could get the President to ask the Unions to accept me bidding jobs at pervailing wages, so that I wouldn't have to pay for all those benefits! Afterall, hadn't I been one of their best salesman when it came to that rediculous wind mill thing? He owes me a favor!
  Ah yes, just another day of wheelin and dealin, just another day of hard nosed politics! But in truth, Edgar did worry about the unions, because usually, if you dared making an enemy of them, you might remain unseen for the rest of your life? Bruno, he thought, I have to call Bruno! Bruno was the head of his security team, and he and his men had kept him alive so far! But what if they were to get to him too, he thought, afterall, they knew about that sweet young philly that he had been tappin lately, and Bruno liked to have the look of the healthy marriage stay unscathed? Aa, he said to himself, and swallowed the two Zanax he had with the last gulp of his Scotch, fluffed his pillow, and tried to sleep?