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Re: Way OT: RE: @Home's 119 domain names up for sale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Black)
Thu Aug 11 14:21:05 2005
From: "Matthew Black" <black@csulb.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:20:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200508111657.AYG21531@mirapoint.drtel.com>
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:57:25 -0500
"Brian Johnson" <bjohnson@drtel.com> wrote:
>
>
> Holy communist manifesto batman!
>
> Let's let the government fix everything. Hold on, hasn't that been tried
> already? Oh yeah the USSR. That was a blazing success.
>
> Conservatives generally aren't against the government helping in areas NO
> ONE ELSE CAN. It is obvious to everyone involved that the government
>largely
> screws up these sorts of "initiatives" and most of the money ends up
>wasted
> anyways. It's these pork projects that kill us.
>
> - Brian J.
Wasted? Please elaborate. It's not like the money vanishes. The money
goes somewhere, usually to pay non-government salaries.
Corporate Amerika is wasteful too: WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron,
and Halliburton. These are companies that hurt the lives of
millions of Americans, including 40,000,000 citizens of California who
pay double the national average for electricity because Enron gamed the
system. We pay 15 cents per kilowatt! That wasn't completely the
government's fault.
matthew black
california state university, long beach
Note: Options expressed are mine and do not necessarily represent
my employer.
