Well, said, Doc. I'm a manufacturer in a small industry who has watched most of
my competition go "offshore" because of the utterly reckless actions of a
relatively small number of political appointees. And when you want to place
blame for offshoring, do the arithmetic. Then do the research.
It takes three to five years between the boardroom decision to move a plant
until enough product has made it onshore to start issuing layoff slips. Who was
in office three to five years ago? What were the policies that made major
employers look overseas? Why were those policies in place? And why did the then
administration fail to address those policies?
The people we elect haven't a clue about what's going on - unless we tell them.
And even when we tell them, forcing a bureaucrat to reverse course takes an act
of Congress. A few who serve "at the will of the President" can be removed -
provided said crony does not provide enough money to the incumbents
re-election campaign, or to the financial markets, to make in inconvenient to
tie a can to his tail. And provided the appointees actions do not represent the
political philosophy of the President.
All in all, the Founders - and Plato - gave us a wonderful system of
government. And what we have now is the fruition of a 227 year long scheme to
subvert that system. In large part by exporting the very foundation of our
success and our economy - our jobs and our technology.
73 Pete Allen AC5E
In this election season where everything seems to be presented or
> interpreted as having partisan purpose we seem to find ourselves
> parsing every word. An after-effect, I suppose, of the Clinton-Gore
> years when all of we non-lawyers learned about new word games like
> "It depends what your definition of is is." and "There is no
> controlling legal authority." Sigh.
>
> So that we might address our E-mails, letters, and phone calls to
> the correct individuals can you specify precisely whom it is in
> this administration you know with certainty to be "highly in favor
> of BPL", please?
>
>
> Generalizations work against us in this campaign to inform the
> uninformed and to derail this RFI trainwreck, only specifics are of value.
>
> IMHO, YMMV ...
>
> --
> Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
> West Central Florida
> Op. Atlas, Drake, Hallicrafters, TenTec ...
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