Originally Posted by
Laughing_Jakal
Not trying to stir up a hornet's nest, but you bid to go under the currrent LOA. You made the MEC's point when they said "Subic guys will bid it anyway, they can't come back to the US..
No nest stirred....I understand the sentiment, although that's not the case I made. I'm one of the dudes who bid it for the upgrade, not the location. Not a chance I'd have gone under the current LOA to the right seat.
Originally Posted by
Laughing_Jakal
Though you voted "No", on the first LOA, you bid it at the current deal. By voting "NO", I am not hurting the guys who are going, because they voluntarily accepted the deal that was offered..
Everyone was also told that we should take the original LOA and that gains would be obtained later. Are we supposed to turn down those gains just because we bid our current seats under an earlier set of rules?
Should I have voted down the ANC move package LOA because the people up there bid it without one?
Who
are you helping by voting no?
Originally Posted by
Laughing_Jakal
I won't vote for an LOA just because it is "better than what we have now." If it is not good enough for me (and my family wanted to go), then I won't vote for it for anyone else..
The question should not be whether
you would go or not. Would your decision be any different if you evaluated the packages not by whether they are good enough for you to go, but as if you were going, which one you would rather be going under.
It's a choice between two packages. If they are both lousy packages, doesn't logic follow to take the better of the two?
Originally Posted by
Laughing_Jakal
Good luck....and don't take my response as a personal attack.
I don't. I understand the reasoning behind all of the arguments against my points, I just don't agree with them all.
Maybe I've taken complete leave of my senses, but I'm looking at this as a guy who's going there. I'm wondering if everyone were doing the same, if their vote would differ. I welcome any attempt you guys make at helping me pull my head out of my arse for finding myself seeing this so much differently than the rest of the crowd.
I can clearly see the benefits in ratifying this.
I'm trying REAL hard and using a lot of imagination to see how anyone could be worse off by ratifying it and I'm coming up nearly empty.
(throwing on another layer of flame-retardant protective gear)
