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Offline Libertas

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USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« on: February 06, 2013, 11:21:04 AM »
Hilarious, everybody is bypassing Congress now days...it's the biggest hip thing to do in the Age of O'Bongo...

Postal Going...away from Saturday
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2013, 11:29:04 AM »
It's funny (in that enraging, despondent way) that the few things the Federal government is actually empowered to do, it won't. You know, protecting national borders...creation and maintenance of a postal service.

What an impotent Congress. The real reason they roll over is because they know the next step to asserting their authority would involve impeachments. So they seem to think by rolling over they can save face by not having to worry about a bluff being called. They have made themselves more irrelevant than Congress has ever been.
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 11:29:42 AM »
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The agency's biggest problem — and the majority of the red ink in 2012 — was not due to reduced mail flow but rather to mounting mandatory costs for future retiree health benefits, which made up $11.1 billion of the losses. Without that and other related labor expenses, the mail agency sustained an operating loss of $2.4 billion, lower than the previous year.

They can stop delivering the mail altogether in order to save that money in order that they can keep paying all the related employee costs.  Right?  Stellar idea.

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"If the Congress of the United States refuses to take action to save the U.S. Postal Service, then the Postal Service will have to take action on its own," said corporate communications expert James S. O'Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.

Okay, I am now officially confused.  This professor has nothing to do with USPS but he's cited in the article because he's supportive of the end-run 'round Congress?

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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2013, 11:29:50 AM »
I would prefer that they give up Wednesday mail.  My paycheck comes on Friday and on holiday weeks it does not show till Saturday, no mail on Saturday means I would be 1 week behind on getting that check deposited.  And no I do not want to do direct deposit.
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2013, 11:35:11 AM »
Quote from: Glock32 on February 06, 2013, 11:29:04 AM
It's funny (in that enraging, despondent way) that the few things the Federal government is actually empowered to do, it won't. You know, protecting national borders...creation and maintenance of a postal service.

What an impotent Congress. The real reason they roll over is because they know the next step to asserting their authority would involve impeachments. So they seem to think by rolling over they can save face by not having to worry about a bluff being called. They have made themselves more irrelevant than Congress has ever been.

I have feeling its more of a Cloward/piven approach. When it goes to sh*t (and it will) they can claim the Constitution is ineffectual, on all levels as well as capitalism, they can introduce an d install by force their Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 2.0
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2013, 11:40:22 AM »
The Prof is a libiot, that is the extent of his link to the USPS, he is just using this case as a means to beat up Congress for not dropping trou and taking the USPS demands like good little Pubbies.

Note the Prof doesn't even attempt to answer the quesiton why we, the taxpayer, have to pay more for less service, that would raise uncomfortable discussions over the utter idiocy of using high-cost government labor vs private non-union labor...ask this poopiehead if he would like to pay through the nose for crappier service at his favorite gay bar and I bet he'd sing a different show tune...
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2013, 11:46:18 AM »
LOL!!!
You said "poopiehead"!
My daughter used that the other day, but not in such an incisive observation about the current political clime.
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2013, 05:42:46 PM »
I bet her intended target was as deserving as mine too!   ;D
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2013, 09:52:41 PM »

Everyday we receive one more confirmation; today we
received two, this and Carney's informing the press
corps (pronounced core) that after due consideration
the president has deemed it OK for them to ask him
about Drones.

Implicit in the permission is prevailing Not Permission.
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Re: USPS Going Postal, Trying to Bypass Congress
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2013, 06:43:27 AM »
Yes, Darth O'Bongo has granted the minions the right to address him...no promise that His Excellency will respond or even act like he gives a rats ass, yes, you may speak.

Wow, what a guy!  What a paragon of egalitarianism!

What a pretentious insane litte fukc!

 ::doublebird::  Tyrant!
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