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Re: I can already hear the conversation quote: You don't think far enough ahead, Karl. You want to live in a utopia but it will NEVER happen.
Yet another person who apparently needs to reframe my position to one extreme in order to make it easier to digest and defeat.
Nowhere do I suggest I want a Utopia.
Nowhere do I suggest life should be fair.
There's nowhere I suggest some regulatory body should determine the price "for everything".
I simply suggest over-charging the elderly for antiquated technology is unethical, and our regulatory authority is dysfunctional. Fairly sane and rather correct observation, if I do say so myself.
You clearly are advocating the slaughter of penguins for use in paving American highways! |
 | Uh I didn't read all of this arguement but I didn't see Karl post anything bad in the first place. And where did someone get that an authority needed to say it was a sleazy action for them to keep changing the old lady? Is there no common sence anymore? The people at the telephone company should have relized it was sleazy to keep charging her. We don't need an authority to tell us something like this was wrong.
And before someone wants to make a remark saying I said something wrong, Don't cause I am sure I explained what I said directly and clearly. |
 fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium join:2005-05-20 kudos:3 | reply to Karl Bode Karl,
you somehow feel that unless you say the "specific words" that you "didn't say it"... That's the way of a politician - happens all the time.
You want a mechanism to correct something you feel is wrong. We don't need that.. a perfect would would have safety nets to catch everything that is "wrong" with the world. THAT, my friend, is a utpoia... perfection. We can't legislate perfection.
The fact is that some people may not get what others feel is "fair"...
You also made comments that they are charging rent for something that is too much for the outdated technology. If it walks like a duck.. it's a duck. Where I come from, that screams someone determining what the price for something should be. And, the way things work in life/the world, they won't stop at telephones. One control leads to another. Isn't that one of the common arguments of the patriot act? It's in the mix! "If they pass a law to go after terrorists, what's to stop them from using it for X?"
If I "clearly advocate the slaugher of penguines for use in paving american highways" then you clearly advocate taking from the rich to give to the poor, Robin Hood.  -- "Wipe out the national deficit over night... Tax the stupid!" - about 50 gMail invites available. PM if you'd like one. |