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To: Ann Janssen who wrote (26038)	5/18/2000 3:18:00 PM
From: Sonny McWilliams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27012

Hello Ann. I got plenty of WCOM too. This whole antitrust deal against WCOM/Sprint is for the birds. Antitrust lawyers are recommending that the deal between those 2 should not come about because it would create gross antitrust problems and no competition on the internet switching stuff. This is full of baloney. Sprint has already said they would divest ALL of their internet stuff in order for this deal to go through. Someone is grossly in error. I guess another attempt by antitrust lawyers to justify their existence. I am sure WCOM/Sprint would challenge this in court and those lawyers know it. Maybe this is one time where Joel Klein and Co. will not go along with the recommendations by these guys. After all, those cos. are struggling in a space where revenues are declining fast with practically 0 charges over the net telephony stuff coming up. NTOP for instance is already going this very cheap route. But we are on the verge of giving China all they want so businesses can relocate to China's cheap labor and make this big trade deficit even bigger by making sure we are getting overrun with cheap imports. I am for businesses to conduct more business in our country. What's wrong with checking this China trade once a year so we can make sure they open their markets. Once the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to put her back in. I am with Labor in this case. Everybody says that this great sucking sound from Mexico would not happen, once we gave them fast track, but nobody explains why our surplus with Mexico suddenly turned into a big deficit. Now China is next. Those guys have to pay their workers more if they want to compete in the world on a permanent basis. Nobody seems to have any problems when foreign cos. take our cos. over. BT/Vodafone comes to mind. biz.yahoo.com Sonny