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Termyn8or -> RE: for the AT&T customers... (9/23/2009 10:11:45 PM)
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I don't think so much that your post fell on deaf ears, but more that you were preaching to the choir. In the end, in business, the customer pays for everything, even speeding tickets of those involved with the company. The money only has one source.
The customer is also the taxpayer and is frequently billed with the toll of maintaining those who could not make it on what they made. Y'know we could always have another ATT breakup ordered by the courts like we did a couple decades ago, but the results would be the same. In other words there is not supposed to be an ATT, they wre successfully ordered to dismantle due to the Sherman Antitrust act, a misapplication of same if I may add. And the fact that ATT exists is living proof that it really accomplished nothing but a bunch of lawyers getting rich. Remember that money came from one source and one sourse only, the customer. The money used to instigate this action was paid for by the taxpayers. So what don't we pay for ?
The fact is that we pay for everything in one way or another. Our selection of carriers for any utility should be based upon their ability to spend our money to the best advantage and therefore offer the best service per dollar. Fines do hurt the company's position in this if heavy enough, but look at Union Carbide in India back in the seventies. Their stock dropped like a rock. In that case who paid ? We paid, like we always pay for their poundfoolishness. And that is the way it will stay until true competition is brought back, and in utiities that is a very hard thing to do. If we could have any faith at all in the government I would advocate the nationalisation of any industry that got to a certain scale of operations, such as believe it or not GM, Ford etc. If you are indeed too big to fail, then you are not going to run it into the ground. If it is that important, do it. Other countries do it all the time.
Only we support the ogliarchy at the level which we do, only we are the country where they can sell you something for a few thousand dollars and have no customer support or service parts. Other countries are different. It is almost as if their governments really care, but we know better, it is only a facade. But this (US) government won't even do that.
So this comes as no surprise, not at all.
T
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