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uh Clem
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Born in the US; damned if I know where I live now
Nov 1999
time: 23:31
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More on Bush's "conservatism" from Paul Krugman in Tuesday's NYT:
quote:
...in July two enterprising Middle Eastern firms started offering cellphone service in Baghdad, setting up jury-rigged systems compatible with those of neighboring countries. Since the collapse of Baghdad's phone system has been a major source of postwar problems, coalition authorities should have been pleased.
But no: the authorities promptly shut down the services. Cell service, they said, could be offered only by the winners in a bidding process — one whose rules, revealed on July 31, seemed carefully designed to shut out any non-American companies. (In the face of strenuous protests the rules were revised, but still seem to favor the usual suspects.) Oddly, the announcement of the winners, originally scheduled for Sept. 5, keeps being delayed. Meanwhile, only Paul Bremer and his people have cellphones — and, thanks to the baffling decision to give that contract to MCI, even those phones don't work very well. (Aside from the fact that its management perpetrated history's biggest accounting fraud, MCI has no experience in building cell networks.) |
Free Enterprise...
Who's Sordid Now?
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Japher
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Ook! Ook! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Jun 2002
time: 05:31
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When I was in college my buddies and I "adopted" this HS kid named Matt.
We met him hanging out at the 7-11, he knew all the bums, was on independent study, and was really bored all the time...
We got him into D&D, started helping with his homework, and got him to take more advanced classes.
His mom was blind and a pot head, though many of us were too, and he would look out for her all the time. Because of this Matt grew up really fast and the only people he had to turn to was his friends. His friends were a bunch of liberal spouters who were bums and us. Sad that a 16 year old had no friends his age.
He graduated high school my second junior year and started working construction. He began to become really angry at his dead beat mom and was sick of the manual labor.
We set him up with entrance exams at the city college, helped him study, and took went to his house pulled him out of bed and sat him in the desk to take the exams.
The last time I saw him he had got into Sac state as an electrical engineer, was pulling enough in student loans to cover his costs of living, and was working a part time job to help support his mom.
Why this story?
Charity begins at home and not at the White House.
Time is more valuable than any amount of my money.
People don't need cash to be encouraged they need someone to get them off their lazy butt, and social programs simply don't supply that.
Am I Republican? For sure.
Am I selfish and greedy with my money? Of course!
Am I selfish and greedy with my time? No.
Some people feel that throwing money at a problem will make it go away, but that doesn't work. I have seen it all my life, and way to personally to get into. Most liberals will be the first one to claim that money is the root of all evil, yet turn around and ask for more of it. To me, asking/begging for money is more greedy than asking/begging to keep what I have.
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29-09-2003 20:50
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