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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
The government has problems? What?!
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Yes, government has problems. Verizon has problems. Government would gleefully trade problems with Verizon. Verizon controls its own budget. Government agencies do not. Government agencies are allowed to keep almost no information confidential. Verizon is required to disclose almost no information. Hate mongers don't bash Verizon. Let's hammer Verizon with public disclosure and FOIA requests, dictate their budget to them, set them up with a Board of
Directors that is split down the middle between people that like what they do and support them, but have half their BoD be people who hate them and want them to fail, then send some TV reporters down there with an agenda of creating a news story that pisses people off. Then Verizon will be standing in the same shoes your government agencies stand in. My guess is that Verizon could be made very dysfunctional, and that those TV reporters will be able to air a Verizon story that will make people angry at Verizon. Just a guess......
Gubmit-bashing is MUCH cheaper and easier than good investigative journalism, and hate-stories play very well with audiences these days. Gubmit-bashing is not just easier for journalists........it's easier for anybody who doesn't want to gather the rest of the facts. Let's just pretend that there are two groups of Americans. Those that work for private companies and those that work for public agencies. Let's pretend the private workers are sharp, intelligent, hard-working, honest and effective. And let's pretend that gubmit workers are lazy, ignorant, unmotivated and dishonest. Yeah, that makes sense.
BTW, I was "interviewed" by the Justice Department last Friday. I was told the prosecutor is a sharp guy who could make triple his current salary working for a private law firm. After meeting him, I would agree he is very sharp and would be much more wealthy if he accepted one of the offers he gets regularly from private law firms. Oh wait. Nevermind. That does not fit the stereotype. Nevermind.