[GreenKeys] and now, for something completely off-topic

[Virgil Bierschwale]

you can't.
Not only that, but think about this.
if wages are declining, eventually we will reach a point where people do not 
make enough to afford your home that you want to sell so that you can fund 
your retirement which means the house price will have to go down to meet 
what people can afford.

This in turn lowers the amount of taxes that a community can collect to fund 
the services that they provide for you.

I can go on and on, but this is not the place.

Here, I just keep my ears peeled for a model 28 that might be close by and 
available when I have the funds to buy it and a place to set it up at <grin>

Virgil
N5IVV

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve Schlink
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:14 AM
To: greenkeys
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] and now, for something completely off-topic

<rant>

Unfortunately, we live in the era of "close enough is good enough".

The respect for excellence died with the turn of the last (20th) century.

Spelling is superfluous since everything today is relative to texting.
(Georetown University misspells government as "govertment" on their web 
site).

Remember Toll Quality? Now the gold standard is a hand held radio, which
most people call a cell phone or mobile.

Wages? Cheaper is always the goal, as most big businesses consider
employees as a (decreasingly) necessary evil.

I'll close with a maybe rhetorical economic question that bugs me:

How can you have a growing economy when real wages are declining ?

</rant>

Steve

At 09:47 PM 3/13/2013 -0500, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
>I am 55 and the same thing happened to me 10 years ago.
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>Which is why I created Keep America At Work.
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>Seen too many stories like this one these last ten years.
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>Normally I don't say anything and just monitor you guys as I'm wanting to 
>get back into rtty when the finances allow.
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>But this particular chain of messages kind of gets me.
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>Virgil
>N5IVV
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>-----Original Message----- From: Don Robert House
>Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:19 PM
>To: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
>Cc: greenkeys
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] and now, for something completely off-topic
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>The young man who is going to do the IT work is a political science
>major with an english minor.
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>On the other hand I have over 40 years of experience in data
>communications and transmission engineering.
>Everything from DC to Light.
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>Of course I am 70 years old, and therefore totally useless to anyone
>under 35 years of age.
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>Don
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>Don R. House
>Network Systems Engineering Manager (Retired)
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