keep the public quiet. Don't want the peasants getting out the torches
and pitch-forks, do we?
Gary
Christopher Wright wrote:
>
> On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Rhkratzse@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Most active members in large national organizations are from larger
>> firms, so they think in terms of larger firms, and the smaller firms
>> inherently and unavoidably get shortchanged, so we just have to live
>> with that, or maybe organizeorganize and/or grow into large firms,
>> right?
> Welcome to the 21st century.
>
>> It's sort of like laws get written, passed, and enforced in the legal
>> system by lawyers, so -- guess what! -- they're oriented toward
>> lawyers who can then charge multiples of engineers' fees to help
>> anyone who unfortunately gets entrapped by that selfsame system.
> It's not sort of like that at all. Laws get passed when people with
> money decide they want them passed and they're oriented so the same
> people with money can have their asses covered at taxpayer expense. So
> you get manufactured product exemptions in the engineering laws and
> protective clauses and earmarks for roads to nowhere.
>
>
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
> .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
> http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/
>
>
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