Author: Mike Hood
Date: 10:45:27 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 13:21:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 05, 2004 at 11:22:29, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On February 05, 2004 at 11:09:04, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>Those persons dissappear when you don't give them attention. >> >>While this is true, you can observe in every discussion group, that it doesn't >>work - there's always someone who reacts. Always. >> >> >>>With the latest actions here i'm sure swami will be forever here >>>and perhaps be moderator soon too :) >> >>A scary thought. :) >>Sargon > >Not really, i withdrew short ago in politics as my role is no longer needed. The >high voltage power lines here will be moved away from the city core and not go >over the head of 7000 people. > >If you realize how many idiots there are in politics who do not even realize >that a strong euro is bad for export as you must sell your products more >expensive than competitors, if you start to realize that very well, then you >have no fear for swami guys getting moderator after people like Mike Byrne have >become it. > >In politics there is people walking around whose only quality is that they are >good in not getting retired from their function. 99% of certain spendings of >some politicians is either complete stupidity or near corrupt. So they spent at >a total budget of 150 million euro like 120 million which youar esure they could >have done for 20 million euro too, whereas they complain about some other good >project of 40 million euro being difficult for them to pay from the remaining >budget. However competitors offer the same project for 28 million euro so their >complaints are not even true :) > >They are even too lazy to do things like that. Let's call it like that, because >otherwise they would be corrupt. Oh by the way the same guys approve to rebuild >the government building for 30 million euro. 1 year later they figure out that >30% of the people must get fired (which everyone knew except them of course) so >they build back the building for another 20 million euro. So that means they >lost somewhere around 50 million euro for 'nothing'. > >I'm sure it's like that with all political parties in all countries, so compared >to these guys swami is a sweetheart, as he writes stuff you can ignore :) I agree with your thoughts on politics, Vincent, but please don't equate the CCC moderators with professional politicians. Politicians earn big money, so their first concern is to ensure their own success, and they only do good for the people if they're sure it will get them re-elected. Our CCC moderators don't get paid, so they're not in danger of being corrupted.
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