| Cost worth it? As a nation, we've become so risk averse, we're willing to spend limitless amounts of money for things that in theory may be noble but in real life may be less than effective. At a certain point, you spend so much money on these myriad of projects that your personal tax rates rise to the point where working people don't take home much money, definitely not enough to live on. (The rich and corporations have pretty much cornered lower tax rates and tax shelters through deep-pockets lobbying and will continue to exercise that advantage for the foreseeable future.) At some point in time, common sense needs to kick in. The cost of E911, with all the bells and whistles (which weren't necessary), is ridiculous. Tech companies jumped on board to ensure a piece of the pie--reassigning addresses is a prime example of waste of both tax payer, individual and business dollars. (Our county just finished that exercise and most people and business are spending money to update all their data with the newly assigned addresses. No one believes that the changing of addresses (base on GPS coordinates) will increase efficiency of emergency services. It simply enriched the pockets of tech consultants and companies, who had cost over runs, naturally.). |
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San Pedro, CA | When you are having a heart attack in your office, and the paramedics show up at the building containing the PABX rather than the building where your office is, get back to us about how much of a waste accurate addresses are. |
