And he did some good things: an oil deal with Chavez's Venezuela, for instance, that subsidised free bus travel for pensioners.
Public provision of welfare for children in Norway, for instance state subsidised day-care facilities available to all children aged 1 6 years old, free schooling (private schooling is rare and 98%% of Norwegian primary school children are enrolled in municipal schools), and practically free health services, relieves parents of some of the financial burdens of parenting.
To maintain the attractiveness of satellite television, for instance, News Corporation has subsidised digital video recorders for its customers, which allow them to record programmes and watch them when they like.
Several governors are trying to stem this decline by subsidising bare-bones health insurance for these people.Arkansas, for instance, has launched a scheme in which the state subsidises the premiums of poor workers in small firms provided every worker is enrolled.
Also, India cross-subsidises power and petroleum products: farmers get cheap electricity, for instance, while industry pays more for it.
Some senior government advisers, for instance, have said that associations should cross-subsidise losses incurred as a result of the benefit cap.
For instance, once a week my school would subsidise a weekly party, held in the school's cafeteria, replete with free food and booze, a DJ, and pre- and after-parties.
In the case of duty-free, for instance, it was Europe's taxpayers who, unknowingly, were subsidising the vast profits of tax-privileged retailers.
Sears, for instance, recently announced that it would no longer subsidise health insurance for retirees (though existing retirees have their subsidies grandfathered).
During the war, the gentry did much to help the starving Chinese, founding Hong Kong's first central welfare agency, for instance, and setting up a company to supply subsidised rice.
