And Obama promoted the key wingnuts from Bush for the economy..that worked well! And how about them wildfires? Those environmental policies of leaving nice highly flammable dead wood and brush year after year really helped us get some good fires in.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:36 PM, rleesimon wrote: > >> Wing nuts want to provide broad band via those stinkin' ugly wires around >> all over the place. Finally, all that hardware gets jammed up with every >> neighbor downloadin' his daily dose of porn. The way to get broadband out >> is multivalent approaches where some get wires, some get over the electric >> grid, some get wireless from hotspots on the telephone poles, some get >> cellular, some get satellite! ...it should be a concerted effort based on >> evaluation of what is the most effective way and what the burden is to the >> existing infrastructure as a factor of cost of expanding that bandwidth as >> compared with a new channel. But, of course, this would be the government >> deciding this so graft and no-bid contracts and under the table stuff >> would >> be the biggest player; isn't it always?? >> > > No, it isn't always. When government agencies get packed with pols and frat > boys you don't have the experience and intelligence necessary to do a good > job. I have watched it happen from close range. I worked for 12 years on > environmental policy. Yes, I saw some very poorly drafted regulations. But I > also watched the regulations get revised year after year getting better and > better. Eventually they were getting almost everything right. Then the > administration changed and wingnuts took over again. The hunted down the > smart people, transferred them, demoted them, gave them busy work, etc. Key > positions got filled by pols and frat boys who deliberately destroyed the > hard work that had been done. It was very sad. I really do mean it when I > call these wingnuts traitors and terrorists. > > I see the current administration being unusually adept at putting good > people in key positions. In particular I see them getting things right with > IT and communications technology. I don't think your expectation of poor > performance is warranted. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
