Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why DA Costs Should Be Spread Among All Subscribers Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 89 16:30:58 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 38 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 366, message 2 of 8 In article , bzs@cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes: > Call me a naive (and cynical) fool, but I always thought the reason > TPC had free DA was to encourage you to use the phone system (usages > which they *did* charge for.) So does a phone book -- and it's cheaper than DA. (Though if you had to listen to advertising while waiting for DA...) > I suppose given that the telephone companies have gone completely > broke over this lost leader and have to send their top execs out on > the streets to beg lunch money we'd better change everything. Not only > that, but we'd achieve ECONOMIC JUSTICE! Something I am sure motivates > every red-blooded Fortune 10 company in America. Local phone service rates are a heavily regulated matter, and I'm sure if they proposed offering free long distance service by raising lifeline rates for phone service, Mr. Shein would be screeching about ECONOMIC JUSTICE at his state PUC. > Does anyone in this discussion honestly believe they are talking about > anything more important than marketing schemes? Are the folks making > feeble noises about "justice" or "morality" in regards to DA charging > actually serious? Hello...hello...anybody home? > > -Barry Shein The Left spends most of its energy screeching about "morality" to justify opposing all manners of economic organization. Certainly, the opposition to DA charges in Los Angeles in the early 1980s was entirely cloaked in this false concern for ECONOMIC JUSTICE. Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer "No man is an island" is the beginning of the end of personal freedom. Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!