Way OT: RE: @Home's 119 domain names up for sale

Thu Aug 11 18:20:27 UTC 2005

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:57:25 -0500
  "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at drtel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Holy communist manifesto batman!
> 
> Let's let the government fix everything. Hold on, hasn't that been tried
> already? Oh yeah the USSR. That was a blazing success.
> 
> Conservatives generally aren't against the government helping in areas NO
> ONE ELSE CAN. It is obvious to everyone involved that the government 
>largely
> screws up these sorts of "initiatives" and most of the money ends up 
>wasted
> anyways. It's these pork projects that kill us.
> 
> - Brian J.

Wasted? Please elaborate. It's not like the money vanishes. The money
goes somewhere, usually to pay non-government salaries.
Corporate Amerika is wasteful too: WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron,
and Halliburton. These are companies that hurt the lives of
millions of Americans, including 40,000,000 citizens of California who
pay double the national average for electricity because Enron gamed the
system. We pay 15 cents per kilowatt! That wasn't completely the
government's fault.

matthew black
california state university, long beach

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