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A vocal exchange, person-to-person (I.e., telephone vs online "chat") is encourgaing. Most businesses now have abandoned phone calls (cuts the bottom line).
That works sometimes, it sure does:
- Such an old concept that it's even Scriptural, a bible passage of the Pentateuch (old Testament)
- Called the story of the Unjust Judge, or the story of the Persistent Widow
Can't recall the chapter and verse, but it's there short-and-sweet
All this sounds pretty much like total condemnation of the whole operation and enterprise.
Wonder if the award of their operating contract was some kind of "no compete" award. Sure sounds like it:
- Has all the smell of insider trading/ cronyism
Like why should they care, nobody appears to be...
Thinking it over; and here's what makes sense (but of course will never happen):
- You the Taxpayer (T) paid The Government (G) for the equipment to begin with.
- If G no longer needs the equipment, T should have first pick (at no cost) of any piece T wants as long as there are enough pieces...
You are the federal taxpayer who already PAID for the hardware in the first place.
I said "paid" above; more accurately I likely should have said "overpaid".
It's close to criminally absurd to be taxed to build it in the first place and then to be taxed AGAIN to buy it back from Uncle Sam...
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