[1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

[Armenta, Loretta]

I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally inappropriate.



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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.

Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial fields.

So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.

-- Rachel
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