[1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
Chris Borek
chrisb at azulstar.com
Tue Jul 27 13:43:17 PDT 2010
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On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> wrote:
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> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally
> inappropriate.
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
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> 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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