Well, yesterday, echoing the House in Washington, we let the inmates run the asylum. In one of the worst meetings I have ever attended, one filled with shout downs, nasty whispered comments made with callous indifference to struggling members of our community, and a complete disregard for our economic well being, Wi-Fi was returned to the budget. Dave Israel allowed his meeting to run wild with his cohorts allowed to call out, allowed to cruelly bash Dorothy Tetro and through it all, he sat there with a smirk on his face. Wonder if he knows Ted Cruz. They have a lot in common.
Sadly taking Dave's assertions of security and assurances that we will have the best that is around, the Executive Board voted for Wi-Fi, never mind all the times and all the people who made it clear that it was not wanted right now as Dave presented it. There is a serious lack of forethought here. Let's look at the history of new devices - I can still remember transistor radios as the new hot item and then came big boomboxes. Remember TV's in big furniture and with vacuum tubes to TV's without those items to finally, the expensive large screen and flat screen. Do you recognize the fact of how much they have improved and gone down in price from the very first ones to now?
How about Walkman, Discman, Betamax vicar - I paid $700 for the first we bought and paid it out over 10 months! Now see how cheap they are - if you even can find one! DVD, DVD R, TiVo, Direct TV, Netflix, HULU. IPods, IPod Nano, IPod touch. Huge computers - remember "do not bend, fold, or mutilate - klutzy desktops and huge towers, smaller computer monitors and towers, costs lowering over the years for better computers, I Pads, laptops that got lighter and lighter, Apple's mac computers, tablets, etc.
The point is , one does not have to jump on the bandwagon to say, "Oh, look what I have" because in today's quickly changing world, what is current at 10 AM is outdated by 10 PM. Can you just see us still paying through the nose for a wifi system full of bugs and outdated problems, with freshly hired techies running around on all the desperate calls for help and , oh - there goes more dollars on the tab so we can pay these techies - and there are so many better and more secure and faster systems around. Gee, if only we had been a bit more patient. We could have explained to the supposed hordes asking always first about wifi that we were working on the best system around but we wanted to wait for security and speed. Saving a supposed $37 is a joke when we count the cost in dollars of slow time, of hacking and ID theft, and of course, the $80 you will spend for your router and who the hell knows what else.
But of course we forget the positive because some good souls of the Village will be running around finding those elderly - who cannot afford computers of their own and whose cruel children don't care enough to buy them one - pictures of their grandchildren sent to them by their non caring children when they know their parents don't have computers! Really. Does this make any sense? And of course, pictures of their grandchildren will certainly offset the hunger pangs they have because that $3 and rising additional fee and the $80 for the router has totally crashed their food budget so strict diet the next few years. Oh, well, they will lose weight and look so svelte!
Delegates, please do not get bamboozled by those who have a vested interest in getting this wifi up. Residents, tell your delegated to remove this from the budget or we will be paying more and more for less and less. Hindsight will not improve the outlook as we watch other developments pass us by with the latest and more economically sensible systems.
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