On 1/14/2017 11:35 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Jim Holsenback <spa### [at] nothanksnet> wrote:
>>  funny how the questionnaire didn't include
>> one of the biggest wastes ... the postal service. great idea when it was
>> pony express because no one else had the will or means. for years the
>> postal service has been operating at a multi-billion per year deficit. i
>> say privatize it and plow the savings back into health care concerns.
>
> That's because Congressional Republicans have legislated that the USPS fund
> retirement 75 years in advance.  In other words, they are required to pay for
> employees who won't even be *born* for another 10 years!  If the Republicans
> find some aspect of government that actually works, they'll find some way to
> break it so they can "prove" that government doesn't work.
>
>
And then, of course, announce a government solution to the problem, 
which involves selling everything to corporations, like they are trying 
to do with national parks. Just to be clear - these people also tend to 
have vastly poor imaginations too, which is why, when there was a drop 
off of camping, and the like in said parks, their solution was not to 
find a way to draw people in (or rather a new way, that didn't involve 
adhering to the same incentives of the great out doors, etc., which 
where already being rejected), they cut funding. Then, when that 
resulted in less places open, and fewer seasonal visitors (which are 
hard to have, when you can't bloody stay open), they cut it more, etc. 
Now.. "We can't keep spending money on this, so we should sell it off!" 
Yeah.. even when they don't intend to break shit, they break it, out of 
sheer incompetence.

Sadly.. that last word has also become the middle name for Democrats, 
so.. they haven't either had the ability, or.. to be clear, the guts, to 
try anything unexpected either.

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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