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- From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear-at-heart)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.233046.771@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:30:46 EST
- References: <1992Dec31.191747.5617@PacBell.COM> <1hvkaiINNalh@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Organization: Univ of Toledo
- Lines: 69
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- In article <1hvkaiINNalh@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- writes:
- > Progress...anyone have any examples of some? Maybe identifying
- > companies that do *not* yet have them, but who show evidence
- > of not discriminating based on SP, and sending them samples of
- > how other companies have solved the problem would cause more
- > companies to offer DP benefits?
-
- This is one of the OLDEST rubrics under the sun, when it comes to
- mismanaging businesses, but hiding behind the concept of being a "scaredy-cat"
- == afraid of being the FIRST company to do something that needs to be done!
-
- (flame on)
- NOW LET ME BRING THIS BACK to Colorado's #2:
- "Before I vote on this matter, I want to know how OTHER PEOPLE are voting on
- this issue"
-
- Voila, the blind leading the blind, and CO#2 passes 53:47!
- (flame off)
-
- Just look at the state of the car/truck/van/jeep industry in the USA verus
- the rest of the world. "As goes GM, so goes the nation". No wonder this
- country has a multi-TRILLION dollar debt problem! "Hey if Brazil and Peru can
- run up a billion dollars of debt a day, why can't we?"
-
- WHY THE HELL SHOULD I CARE WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING, IF I KNOW WHAT I OUGHT
- TO BE DOING?
-
- If 40 milllion Americans pay only the minimum balance on the charge cards
- each month, then how come some people pay their balances in full each month?
- Hey its ONLY 18% interest -- 40 million people can't all be wrong, can they?
-
- But sometimes, people do rely on what other folks do, instead of sitting
- on the proper side of the law.
-
- 55 mile an hour speed limits save lives! Yet MILLIONS of cars exceed the
- speed limit every day of the week. "What do you mean I was going over the
- speed limit--why didn't you pull over those 15 other cars that were also doing
- 70 in the 55 zone?"
-
- "Cause that is the law, and I can only pull over one car at a time"
-
- Just do it, do the RIGHT thing! If you really care about EQUAL rights,
- then do whatever you can, to make sure that EQUAL means EQUAL! (and put the
- quotes from ANIMAL FARM out to the pasture)
-
- Remember, the policies, handbooks, regulations, laws and court cases that
- we are all discussing were NOT suddenly appearing on our desks out of the blue.
- They were all written BY PEOPLE, and therefore they can be CHANGED by people
- who want them changed!
-
- Slavery was legal in many parts of the world, even though it was
- considered immoral by some, while at the same time, other people argued that
- it was an economic necessity, and by-passed the ETHICAL and HUMAN aspects
- of slavery.
-
- That doesn't mean that you have to survey what your competitor's policy
- is regarding slavery before addressing it in YOUR corporate policy statement.
-
- Your company can extend EQUAL benefits if IT WANTS TO.
-
- Plain & Simple!
- --
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