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Old 01-25-2020, 01:13 AM   #1
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Not it or it's, the government is not singular, the government is an assembly of thousands of agencies, departments, and bureaus. You're making the mistake of thinking one knows what the other is doing when in fact they hardly know the other exists.
Companies are the same way, after a certain size.

The left tentacle never knows what the right tentacle is doing.
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Old 01-25-2020, 09:26 AM   #2
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Some CEOs use that to make the tentacles compete.
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Old 01-27-2020, 09:12 AM   #3
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Some CEOs use that to make the tentacles compete.

Yeah, AT&T started that in the 80s. It worked out well, by which I mean "That was effectively the end of AT&T."

Same thing happened to Sears.
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