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Matters Financial |
3 February 2003
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Improving Phone Choice Through Inconvenience
The power that be have visited a stupidity on New York City's telephone users that tests the limits of double-think. Just as the US Army has to destroy the village to save the village, the FCC has decided that it must inconvenience the consumer to help the consumer. Every phone call in the city now requires 11 digits to be completed instead of the 7 needed just last week in order to serve consumers better. Click here to read more.
Ted Turner Wisely Leaves AOL Time Warner
Ted Turner, founder of CNN and the man who made the Altanta Braves a team to watch, has decided to quit as Vice-Chairman of AOL Time Warner. Congratulations are in order. Mr. Turner has come to his senses and seen that the non-job of Vice-Chairman was created solely to give him a place at a table that shouldn't have been built. Click here to read more.
Prescriptions: Seniors Told to Buy Canadian
President Bush and the free-marketeers have a problem with the cost of health care in the US generally and with prescription medicines specifically. This was driven home by a recent TV ad that essentially told US old folks how to get their medications delivered right to their doors -- from Canada. It seems that Canada, a land of socialized medicine, can produce and deliver pills to aged Americans cheaper than their native land. That isn't how NAFTA was supposed to work. Click here to read why.