ORIGINAL: Hossfly
Robotech, it is called LEVERAGE! How in Hades do you think Lyndon Johnson got some 280+/- bills passed through Congress during his final few months. Those bills were social bills that have forever broken the back of this LATE GREAT Country that now everyone (except a very few) thinks the government is simply a golden goose laying golden eggs for the non-productive and the super rich. LJ had a file on every congressman including all those that owed favors and those that had certain misbehaving the congress person would not wish to become public.
Yes, as an elected representative, I will use LEVERAGE if and when it provides that which the constituency elected me to do. IMO, the likes of you will do the same any time the situation is for YOUR PERSONAL benefit.
RC involved AMA Members needed those frequencies. If the EC passed over the one real opportunity to finally get the freqs. released, I would have definitely advised the AMA membership just who did and who did not stand in the way. Fortunately, the majority agreed with me, and a few opposing personalities were able to revise their thinking to determine their most beneficial course was to go along with the others.
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
Albert Einstein
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Good Lord, where to start.
Leverage? At what point do
you put a limit? You could use the term "leverage" to justify just about any form of coercion from threatening retribution to a hood leveraging the contents of your pockets by holding a gun to your head. What happened to honor, fair play and trustworthiness? It really surprises me that you, of all people, would take this tact. It doesn't jive with your self proclaimed Captain America image.
Anyway....... You use LBJ as an example of some one who accomplished his goals using leverage gained by accumalating dirt on his opponents. What does that mean? You leveraged the EC with exposure of their dirty laundry? Maybe your diatribe on LBJ was just out of context and you weren't comparing it to your actions in getting the EC to go along with your will.
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"The likes of you"? What exactly is "the likes of me?" How would you have any clue?
The "likes of me" donates time and money for the benefit of his flying club with no expectation or desire for recognition or my personal benefit other than to assist in building and maintaining a first class flying site for all our members to enjoy.
You have no idea what the "likes of me" is Skippy. I'll tell you one thing about the "likes of me" and that is this. I don't allow myself to be bullied by "the likes of you." The "likes of you" are common place through out the workforce and society in general. They keep their allies through fear and intimidation. When they are called on it they usually show their true colors and cut and run leaving their minions to fend for themselves. Their allies are generally of the ilk of the people you indict with your AE quote.
The "likes of me"? You'll probably never know for sure unless we should ever meet face to face. If we do, please feel free to attempt to "leverage" me. Then you'll see "the likes of me."