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Global Tentacles. Local Rip-off.
pzarquon: " I doubt they're in a hurry to repaint their trucks..."
"they" being "Hawaiian Telcom" of The Carlyle Group. Not that Verizon and before that GTE were not of Carlyle; both were, increasingly in stages. Only now with its newly named HiTelcom does Carlyle Group (motto: "Global Vision. Local Insight.") raise its hydra-headed (Hydra but for the monster's immortal center head) corporatist body of elitists' anonymity self-assuredly casting its shadow over Hawaii so as to see be seen, listened to, and, above all, obeyed; the latter activity being Hawaii state and county elected and unelected officials' bending over, bending whatever, facilitating whenever, to please The Carlyle Group--"
Our mission is to be the premier global private equity firm, leveraging the insight of Carlyle's team of investment professionals to generate extraordinary returns across a range of investment choices, while maintaining our good name and the good name of our investors ". Extraordinary returns to anonymous investors? What a pile of stink!! "...maintaining the good name of our investors...". For all the public knows such investors could have "good names" like: Marcos, Suharto, Pahlavi, Somoza, Pinochet, Bush, Cheney.
If Carlyle does not just flip its HiTelcom for "extraordinary returns", slithering again to below the Hawaii populace's radar where The Group is most comfortably acquistive, manipulative and profitable (at other's expense, of course) ,,, perhaps they will repaint their free-of-license-fee vehicle's for their employees at the company's property-tax-free properties. Costs of such paint jobs would surely show up as costs to be borne by HiTelcom customers.
Go to a county's tax assessor's records and see what GTE/Verizon/HiTelcom has ever paid in county property taxes. Yet, the "pubic utility" (owned by anonymous people) pays great sum$ to advertise to promote their monopolistic image.
pzarquon: " I doubt they're in a hurry to repaint their trucks..."
"they" being "Hawaiian Telcom" of The Carlyle Group. Not that Verizon and before that GTE were not of Carlyle; both were, increasingly in stages. Only now with its newly named HiTelcom does Carlyle Group (motto: "Global Vision. Local Insight.") raise its hydra-headed (Hydra but for the monster's immortal center head) corporatist body of elitists' anonymity self-assuredly casting its shadow over Hawaii so as to see be seen, listened to, and, above all, obeyed; the latter activity being Hawaii state and county elected and unelected officials' bending over, bending whatever, facilitating whenever, to please The Carlyle Group--"
Our mission is to be the premier global private equity firm, leveraging the insight of Carlyle's team of investment professionals to generate extraordinary returns across a range of investment choices, while maintaining our good name and the good name of our investors ". Extraordinary returns to anonymous investors? What a pile of stink!! "...maintaining the good name of our investors...". For all the public knows such investors could have "good names" like: Marcos, Suharto, Pahlavi, Somoza, Pinochet, Bush, Cheney.
If Carlyle does not just flip its HiTelcom for "extraordinary returns", slithering again to below the Hawaii populace's radar where The Group is most comfortably acquistive, manipulative and profitable (at other's expense, of course) ,,, perhaps they will repaint their free-of-license-fee vehicle's for their employees at the company's property-tax-free properties. Costs of such paint jobs would surely show up as costs to be borne by HiTelcom customers.
Go to a county's tax assessor's records and see what GTE/Verizon/HiTelcom has ever paid in county property taxes. Yet, the "pubic utility" (owned by anonymous people) pays great sum$ to advertise to promote their monopolistic image.
Whoever is billing us for the service...don't really care.
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