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[MaryHM]

Dave's [ a Mac daddy] final analysis was... why didn't you tell us this stuff 2 years ago? We already guaranteed to the USCRTF that the one % was deliverable!
Boggles the mind doesn't it?

Dave and Paul seem to always forget that Elwyn Segrest and I BOTH ranted and raved about the 1% DOA being impossible during the public comment period when the standards were being developed 2 years ago. I don't know about Elwyn, but I had numerous phone calls, emails, and even a face to face meeting with David and Peter Scott at my facility. DOA was always the major topic. However, that's not what they wanted to hear, so they ignored it. Just like with everything else....

 

[clarionreef]

And so Mary,
With reference to yours and Segrests EARLY testimony they cannot claim ignorance and incompetence about the undeliverable 1% out of S.E.Asia. Oh my God. Do you know what that means??
It means that inorance was not the excuse! Ignorance would be more forgiveable. Ignorance is not sly and calculating.

Instead of "sincere fact-finding" we seem to have a group with a determined plan to 'select out' and disregard inconvenient testimony. Perhaps to keep ignoring it until they found someones testimony they liked. When they finally found someones testimony they liked...something that was more easily marketable, they ran with it, built a business plan around it and proposed it to the USCRTF and granting agencies who were only to happy to hear such plans for perfection.
Was it ment to succeed? No. That was it appears, not the intention.
See what happens when PROFESSIONAL outside interests offer to fix things up for you? Oh, its cheap [ paid for on grant money] and painless???Sure go ahead! And the magazines print this good news about the trade as if they knew anything beyond publishing and the professional NGO employee gets paid for now.
Even with the shortfalls and missed targets in the business plan, it will continue for awhile. The conversion of small results into big ones is the next thing we'll all hear . We'll hear how the plan is working among 3 exporters...[ the two smallest ones that I have worked with and the President of the exporters assn.] This will be offered as proof of achievement and basis for continued financial subsidy. As the scheme to auto finance by taxing the trade goes down in flames, the scramble to secure funding thru grants will intensify. The granting foundations themselves are tightening up big time thanks to the worsening economy and competetion to secure this free money will intensify. This week the Packard foundation alone just cut over half of its grants for the coming year. Many others are doing likewise.
With fewer prospects to run this deed-free smoke and mirrors roadshow and with no prospect of the industry giving up the money to subsidize it, a different, inside 'fish people' approach is needed...and coming.
October will be eventful.
Sincerely, Steve Robinson