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Other than in your bedroom there is no AEP bobby.

You get what you pay for.

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Doesn't this run counter to your otherwise impeccable free market credentials, Reverend Bob? Would it not mean that attorneys are restricted in the deals they can cut with paying customers? By the meddling government no less! Yucky! Are you becoming a socialist?

uwot wrote:Doesn't this run counter to your otherwise impeccable free market credentials, Reverend Bob? Would it not mean that attorneys are restricted in the deals they can cut with paying customers? By the meddling government no less! Yucky! Are you becoming a socialist?

Uwot, please stop viewing things with such a jaundiced eye. The government appoints companies whose job is to provide attorneys and juries for specific judicial cases. The cost will vary depending on the type and complexity of the case. If a company does not maintain a high standard of performance, obviously it will be replaced by another company. Please don't nitpick the details, but concentrate on the overall proposition I am presenting.

bobevenson wrote:If a company does not maintain a high standard of performance, obviously it will be replaced by another company.

But, Reverend Bob, who decides what a high standard of performance is, if it is the government that employs the company? What say does the individual have? Surely you are relinquishing all authority to the state; that's the essence of totalitarianism, is it not?

What is AEP, google wasnt very helpful

uwot wrote:

bobevenson wrote:If a company does not maintain a high standard of performance, obviously it will be replaced by another company.

But, Reverend Bob, who decides what a high standard of performance is, if it is the government that employs the company? What say does the individual have? Surely you are relinquishing all authority to the state; that's the essence of totalitarianism, is it not?

Let me break it down a little further for you. The government doesn't hire attorneys and juries. It hires a primary contractor or several primary contractors who hire companies to provide them. Performance is judged by outside bipartisan committees, and based on their evaluation, the companies or primary contractors are subject to being replaced. Do you actually expect me to provide you with a detailed operating analysis, or can I expect you to connect the dots of this theory like a normal human being?

bobevenson wrote:Let me break it down a little further for you. The government doesn't hire attorneys and juries. It hires a primary contractor or several primary contractors who hire companies to provide them. Performance is judged by outside bipartisan committees, and based on their evaluation, the companies or primary contractors are subject to being replaced.

Sounds a bit complicated, Reverend Bob, not to say expensive. So, there will be a government agency responsible for hiring one or more primary contactors. These in turn hire companies to provide attorneys and juries. Then the whole thing is judged by other, presumably professional committees, which you describe as bipartisan; bipartisan with regard to what? Who do they report to, and who judges their performance?

bobevenson wrote:Do you actually expect me to provide you with a detailed operating analysis, or can I expect you to connect the dots of this theory like a normal human being?

The thing is, Reverend Bob, I am a normal human being and not a divinely inspired prophet.

bobevenson wrote:The thing you don't understand, uwot, is that under the AEP, the government does not own, operate support or promote anything. This is free-market capitalism at its highest level.

It sounds like the AEP won't do anything and has no principles.

uwot wrote:

bobevenson wrote:The thing you don't understand, uwot, is that under the AEP, the government does not own, operate support or promote anything. This is free-market capitalism at its highest level.

It sounds like the AEP won't do anything and has no principles.

Oh, my God, have you lost your mind?

Just reading your words, Reverend Bob.

uwot wrote:Just reading your words, Reverend Bob.

Obvious gross misinterpretation.

bobevenson wrote:...under the AEP, the government does not own, operate support or promote anything.

Reverend Bob, I was so hoping you'd be new type of divinely inspired prophet; one that speaks clearly and consistently. Oh well. So how should I interpret the above?