RE: [Futurework] Dissecting the voting machine madness

[Harry Pollard]

Ray,   In my discussion of location monopolies, the local ‘phone company looms large – so long as it tied to poles by the roadside. However, my cable company installed a local service in direct competition with the local phone company.   They supplied two lines with all the costly extras like caller ID thrown in – along with free toll calls for 60 miles in all directions. (It is free to China Lake where a Pollard family lives – about 200 miles north – which I don’t understand, but I don’t argue.)   The cost was $39 a month. I now pay $2 a month for 9 cent a minute calls to the UK and France. I have abandoned MCI, Sprint, and ATT.   Your bills seem extraordinarily high. Don’t understand it. Must be an “urban sinkhole” expense.   You could get rid of the cell-phone.   Harry   ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ********************************************   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Evans Harrell Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:21 PM To: Karen Watters Cole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Dissecting the voting machine madness   Sounds like my telephone bill since we got deregulation and cell phones.   Went from $36 a month to over one hundred and sometimes as high as $300.   Once MCI wanted it to be $1,500 but that was a mistake.    Anyway electricity is more expensive than labor or should it be?  What about "productivity" and automation?   It should have been less, but it isn't.   Must be privilege.   Logic anyone?     --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 12/15/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 12/15/2003