From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: So Fucking Good, They Were Going To Make Our Lives SO Much
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:13:58 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-12-22 10:06, JTEM wrote:
> Â Alan wrote:
>
>>> Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's bizarre and frankly childish
>>> behavior during testimony before Congress wasn't the U.S. Postal
>>> Service's worst moment last week. That came two days later.
>>>
>>> DeJoy, appearing before the House Oversight and Accountability
>>> Committee, was told by Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia
>>> that he is "responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the
>>> lack of accountability."
>> Hmmmmmm...
>>
>> Tell us all again:
>>
>> Who gets to decide what contracts the USPS agrees to?
>
> The postal service has been under siege by the private shipping
> firms as long as I can remember. Back when I worked for a company
> in the industry, they had the head of their competition on their
> board.
>
> Imagine how well Ford would do if the CEO of GM sat on their board.
>
> Under Dubya Bush they passed the most insane law in order to
> artificially bankrupt the most efficient postal service in the world.
>
> Starting in 2006, the Republican President & congress saddled the
> USPS with unreasonable costs. Every year they were forced to pre
> pay SEVERAL YEARS worth of health insurance costs, instantly
> erasing a budget surplus and turning it into a deficit. THEN they
> used this "Bankruptcy" as an excuse to cut services, close
> locations...
>
> Again, the USPS was the single most efficient postal service on
> the planet. They couldn't just privatize it. They had to be
> patient, think long term, BREAK IT FIRST.
>
> They're doing the same with the public schools and even law
> enforcement!
>
> This is why the self imposed elite own everything, control
> everything. They think long term. The average person, if they're
> not going to make a buck they won't bother. But the elite are
> willing to wait, even take generations. They think in terms of
> family -- DYNASTIES. They might not personally ever rake in the
> profits from a privatized postal service or police force, but
> their children or grandchildren will.... and yours will suffer
> for it.
>
> These are evil people. No, I'm just saying that. This isn't a
> school yard taunt. They are better than you. You don't matter.
> You're not one of them, you don't deserve wealth and power. You
> don't need it.
>
> And, yes, these are the exact same people who came up with the
> Gwobull Warbling schemes.
>
> They get private jets, you need to eat bugs.
And Trump helped that right along...