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To: Tennessee_Bob
Damn, Bob! Can't you tell the difference between federal employees (individual customers) and the federal government? This policy does nothing to discriminate against any individual -- it just bans sales to the federal government. I would hope that all those Department of Energy will be smart enough to know the difference...
107 posted on 06/16/2002 2:57:13 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine
Ok, let's take it step by step here, then maybe you'll understand.

Oak Ridge is a small city, built in 1942, by the Federal Government in order to build the first nuclear weapons, a business they're still in, along with weapons and energy research, and research of other kinds.

Nearly every business here is related to supporting the Federal Government's facilities here in Oak Ridge. The local Home Depot does a lot of business with those folks. Granted, they are private contractors with the Federal Government, however, they usually get their purchase orders for supplies, product and consumables from the facility they're working at - i.e., one of the local Federal Government facilities.

Home Depot here in Oak Ridge made the majority of its bulk sales to the local facilities, i.e., the Federal Government. Since Home Depot is now refusing to do business with them, that business will be taken back to the folks they used to do business with. The primary reason Home Depot built it's facility here was to do exactly the kind of business that they are now refusing to do.

OK, I'm going to read back over this and see if it was clear enough. I realize there's a few words of more than two syllables....

110 posted on 06/16/2002 3:05:00 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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