| Your Money, Your Communities, Your Country, Your Choice I think we should look at this differently. This is not Verizons money. This is your money, you the American citizen, you who lives in Brooklyn, or Trenton, or Hartford, or Providence. You on average, pay this particular entity $100 or so to provide you with your Phone, TV, and Internet service. So you pay $1,200 a year for this. Think of your taxes, say you pay $200 a month, $2,400 a year, with this money you pay your mayor, $150,000 your police chief $125,000, your fire chief $125,000, your school superintendent,$125,000 etc, you pay your teachers, your firefighters, your police, your neighbors, $65,000 a year. Your communications company that you pay $100 a month or $1,200 a year to. You pay your Communications president not $150,000 like you pay your mayor, you pay him or her $6,000,000 a year, you pay your Communications Controller not the $125,000 you pay your City Controller, you pay him or her, $4,000,000 a year, and then you pay your communications workers, your neighbors, $65,000 a year. Comcast which some of you pay $100 a month pays it's employees, your neighbors, $45,000 a year. That's $20,000 less a year going to your neighbors that would be going into your communities, your schools, your businesses etc, but you allow Comcast to give it to your communication president $12,000,000 a year. So, the question is do you want to pay your neighbors $20,000 more a year that goes into your communities, and my community, or do we want to pay our communications president and controllers a gigantic amount of money that they take directly out of our neighborhoods, our schools, and our communities, and take it to their country clubs, and their 6 vacation homes. You and I pay this money, you and I, it is not Ivan Seidenberg's money, it is not Dennis Streigel's money. It is your money and it is my money, I say we pay our neighbors the $20,000 extra per year, our cities, towns, and neighborhoods need it. Ivan Seidenberg and Dennis Striegel will probably be ok, they may have to get rid of one of their vacation homes in Turks @ Cacos. Don't worry though they'll still have their homes in the Hamptons! Just another way to look at it! |
