Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
 ·SONIC.NET
| Funny
Ahh our government fumbles along doing a bit of good and a bunch of bad here and there once again ... nice news.
"Why haven't you done exactly what I want you to do for me?"
"What was that?"
"Also, because of what I want, what about something else you're supposed to be doing anyway?"
"Give me money to do what I'm supposed to do!"
"But we already pay you millions or billions of dollars! Also, because you don't want to do what we're asking you to do for what we want for our precious little projects, we're going to threaten your main budget that you say is insufficient for what you're already supposed to be doing."
Other side pouts.
I didn't see the original grilling, so I'm sure my paraphrasing is all out of order and inaccurate. But it shows how at least they're threatening him for something he shouldn't be doing (asking for extra money), even though the reasons are probably misguided and certainly inappropriate. So it blunders along ... and at least Martin knows he's not alone, and has to work with others.
His "a few eggs have to be cracked" mentality isn't necessarily what we want in an unvetted loose canon. That begs the question, who vetted him? It seems AT&T and that other big telco that's at least doing the fiber thing were on the good side of the vetting. |
