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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 11/8/2000 8:36 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: For what it's worth... posted by Lora Knepper on 11/8/2000 4:25 PM MST:



Matt and Lora,

I don't believe that my initial message advocated support for FIRST as a reason for casting a vote, but rather was an after the fact assessment of some potential good that may flow to FIRST given one (slightly more probable at this point in time) potential outcome.

BUT...

I have devoted a significant fraction of my waking hours for the last 5 years advancing FIRST and it's goals. I BELIEVE THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.

To suggest that casting my vote based on whether I believe one candidate will support me or oppose me in this endevour is somehow out of bounds or silly, in my view, can only indicate how little sleep you folks must have had recently (slight sarcasm alert).

While I did not cast my vote on that basis, I suggest that this would have been a much more serious basis on which to make my decision than the basis that 99% of the population used. Even more important, I believe that this method of deciding which lever to pull would have, in fact, been a more serious issue than the issues that the candidates themselves urged me to use.

I really mean this. In my view, there is NO FIX for social security if the USA loses its tenuous grasp on its leading position in technology. There is NO FIX for the environmental problems (real or imaged) without mathmeticians, scientist, and engineers. There is NO FIX for our education system without the consumers (students and parents) demanding that the problems be fixed. And on and on...

FIRST, at its core, addresses these concerns more squarely than any of the proposals that any of the main stream candidates' proposal.

For what it's worth...

Joe J.