[TenTec] BPL Update

[ac5e at comcast.net]

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 ...
> p.s. Linux-incompatible hardware is defective!
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