[8817] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Sun Dec 5 22:29:41 1993
To: Richard Mandelbaum <rma@photon.poly.edu>
Cc: Everyone else lurking on Com Priv <com-priv@psi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 93 10:44:04 EST."
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 93 22:27:39 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
one key difference
accountants know that they only count what happened, that other people
make the world really work day to day, making products, teaching children,
pumping gas etc
i don't think that the career bureaucrats do
marty
I think that is a fine thread for a discussion.
Why career accountants are less "bad' than career government types.
We should all recall taht J.Edgar though accountancy was a good background
for G-men.
I would venture to guess that more havoc has been wrought by accountants
than by M-16s
____________________
Hate to break it to you Marty ol' boy, :) but the Federal Government
has
given the Generally Accepted Accounting Practices and the rules set u
p by
the Accounting Board the force and effect of law. As it stands, the
GAAP
and other rules are as much "involuntary regulation" as anything crea
ted
by a government agency.
Living down here beside Babylon on the Potomac there is a clear differ
ence
The people who rule on GAAP are neither career nor politically appoint
ed
bureaucrats
In addition they don't have a law enforcement section that totes M16's
.
Marty
