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Thursday, September 9, 2004
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I was overheard to have said...
Outing independence
| | If one of the functions of IT is to prevent people from installing software that they think is (or might be) appropriate to do their jobs or to be more productive, how can anyone "do-it-themselves"? |
| | I wonder how many really good IT people leave otherwise good companies because they're tired of being told how IT products can't help them do their jobs. |
Dukakis 2.0
| | I've avoided talking politics, but I gotta say that the Kerry campaign, after what I thought was a pretty good showing at the DNC, has been blah beyond belief. The candidate's speaking style, in which he sounds like every word weighs forty pounds, seems even more insufferable than usual. I mean... every time I hear him speak (on the radio, mostly) I don't know what the hell he's talking about. With Bush I know. |
| | I think Matt goes a little soft on the Democratic politicians trucked in by the DNC to help with the counter-message, since they too failed to get out in the streets of NYC and connect with the passions so evident there. |
| | But whichever way you slice it, the story is the same. Democratic elites, led by John "Aspen-Nantucket" Kerry and Bob "I Win Either Way" Shrum, are running a terrible campaign. |
| | The latest, largest piece of evidence for that charge? Their failure to respond to W's repeated claims that Kerry's plans to raise taxes on the rich will just backfire on the middle-class, since "the rich hire lawyers and accountants and you get stuck with the bill." "Every time they say tax the rich, the rich dodge and you pay," Bush tells working and middle class crowds, to appreciative roars. |
| | The truth, which is that under Bush IRS audits of rich taxpayers ($100,000+) have dropped to a lower rate than the poor (<$25,000), that businesses are 33% less likely to be audited, audits of the largest coporations dropped as well, that companies who seek government contracts while reincorporating overseas to escape US taxes face no penalty from the Administration, and that nothing has been done to deter the abuse of offshore tax havens (heck, most of the President's top contributors are financial companies and accounting firms that sell such dodges to wealthy individuals and corporations), hasn't even gotten out of bed and put its boots on...Meanwhile, another big Bush lie travels around the world. |
| | A fired-up Democratic base that understands the stakes might yet save Kerry, but right now it would be despite him... |
| | Once again, it's a recall campaign. On a number of levels. |
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