From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: So Fucking Good, They Were Going To Make Our Lives SO Much Easier... And Cheaper? - Uhhhh... No
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:18:39 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:04:44 -0800, Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, who was *NEVER* a three sport letterman, like me, and who
was *NEVER* a bouncer, like me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf pro, like me, and who was *NEVER* a lifeguard, like me, and who *NEVER* dunked
a basketball, like me, and has *NEVER* laid as many women as me, says...
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"The US in *****2022***** paid defense contractor Oshkosh $3B to make electric mail trucks for USPS, with another $7B PLANNED. The company should've
delivered 3000 trucks by now."
WHO was President in 2022 and WHO was President when "another $7B" was "planned".
BIDEN BRAGGED earlier this year that HE'D BUILD a half million of them.
Why is it OK for liberals to blame Trump for everything that happened(s) during Biden's reign of terror, but Conservatives aren't allowed to blame
Clinton, Obama or Biden for ANYTHING that happened during their reigns?
They tried to blame everything bad on Bush that happened during Obama's reign or divisiveness and shitty economic times. (see below)
Argue the minutiae and not the topic?
PLONK!
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Despite $3b Commitment, Only 93 of 3,000 Promised Electric Sups Trucks Delivered
93
Yes!
Government doing what the private should? Yeah. . that ALWAYS works out right.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's bizarre and frankly childish behavior during testimony before Congress wasn't the U. . 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.
DeJoy retorted that 'this Congress is responsible for it falling apart" and insisted he was 'trying to fix" the post office.
He then told McCormick that "you're talking to yourself" and covered his ears with his hands like the "hear no evil" monkey. (See it for yourself
here.
Appalling as that was, DeJoy's antics were overshadowed when the Washington Post reported that even after the Biden administration committed $3
billion to buy electric delivery trucks for the post office, the contractor it hired, Oshkosh, has delivered only 93 of what was supposed to be 3,000
EV trucks by now.
"Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule," the Post says. "The delays put Biden's climate goals at risk. (Concern for the
phantom danger of "climate change" outweighs the gross incompetence of the federal government in the eyes of the Post.
The "historic" White House initiative that was ultimately to deliver 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles to the post office has been "plagued by
manufacturing mishaps and supplier infighting," says the Post.
Rather than building 80 a day, as was the expectation, the company is cobbling together just one.
OK, so maybe this isn't the Postal Service's fault. And Biden might even deserve a little slack on this one. He has no direct line to the
manufacturer's troubles.
Still, a thread exists.
Biden could have used the dollars to buy mail trucks that would be built and delivered on time, but he chose to buy vehicles that would be, in the
words of the Post, the "hallmark" of his "industrial and climate agenda.
Practicality and principled stewardship of taxpayers' dollars were apparently never a consideration. It was all about Biden's legacy.
We're not letting the Postal Service off entirely, either.
DeJoy could have put up a fight and demanded that Washington buy trucks from companies that build tens of thousands of vehicles a month and could
produce mail trucks with only minor retooling of their manufacturing processes.
No need for them to be "next generation" for simple postal delivery. They could be as austere and basic as the more than 600,000 frill-free Jeeps
built for World War II by multiple companies.
This is a scandal not unlike Biden's inability to build the EV charging stations he promised. As of last month, after $7. billion was allocated in
2021 for that project, only eight charging stations, which have 214 charging ports, have been built.
Biden bragged earlier this year that he'd build a half million of them.
http://archive.today/2024.12.13-124120/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/biden-usps-ev-oshkosh-climate/
http://archive.today/2024.12.18-184752/https:/www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-11-27/fact-focus-posts-misrepresent-biden-administration-
spending-on-ev-charging-stations
https://archive.is/V7rW3
https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-promised-half-a-million-ev-charging-stations-we-now-have-eight/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/bidens-electric-car-fiasco-is-already-causing-an-economic-bloodbath/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/citing-high-ev-costs-usps-still-plans-to-purchase-gas-delivery-trucks/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/epa-wants-to-nix-new-fleet-of-usps-trucks-to-fight-climate-change/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/fact-check-biden-claims-credit-for-500000-ev-charging-stations-only-8-were-built/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/financially-strapped-usps-spending-billions-on-evs-as-it-stonewalls-foia-requests/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-trump-can-finally-dismantle-the-climate-industrial-complex/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-last-thing-the-usps-needs-is-a-green-fleet/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/usps-plans-to-go-green-by-2026-and-its-gonna-cost-taxpayers-billions/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5145579/postmaster-general-covers-ears-oversight-hearing
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/20/biden-?harris-administration-announces-historic-investment-to-electrify-u-s-
postal-service-fleet/
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Democrat Bahney Fwank's $10 Trillion Crash
That's right, shut-in.
Fwank's Fingerprints Are All Over The Financial Fiasco
http://tinyurl.com/Fwanks-Prints-All-Over-Crash
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Key Democrats opposed the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act
of 2005, which would have established a single, independent regulatory
body with jurisdiction over Fannie and Freddie - a move that the
Government Accountability Office had recommended in a 2004 report.
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Barney Frank And Democrat Party Most Responsible For 2008 Economic
Collapse
It's beyond asinine that Democrats blame Bush for ruining the economy, and
praise Clinton as having the mostest wonderfulest economy ever, when it
was a Clinton program that ruined the Bush economy. But that's the
mainstream media narrative for you.
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'THE PRIVATE SECTOR got us into this mess. The government has to get us
out of it."
That's Barney Frank's story, and he's sticking to it. As the Massachusetts
Democrat has explained it in recent days, the current financial crisis is
the spawn of the free market run amok, with the political class guilty
only of failing to rein the capitalists in.
The Wall Street meltdown was caused by "bad decisions that were made by
people in the private sector," Frank said; the country is in dire straits
today "thanks to a conservative philosophy that says the market knows
best." And that philosophy goes "back to Ronald Reagan, when at his
inauguration he said, 'Government is not the answer to our problems;
government is the problem.' "
In fact, that isn't what Reagan said. His actual words were: "In this
present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government
is the problem." Were he president today, he would be saying much the same
thing.
Because while the mortgage crisis convulsing Wall Street has its share of
private-sector culprits -- many of whom have been learning lately just how
pitiless the private sector's discipline can be -- they weren't the ones
who "got us into this mess." Barney Frank's talking points
notwithstanding, mortgage lenders didn't wake up one fine day deciding to
junk long-held standards of creditworthiness in order to make ill-advised
loans to unqualified borrowers. It would be closer to the truth to say
they woke up to find the government twisting their arms and demanding that
they do so - or else.
The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was
when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing
mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being
denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
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Only people can who understand how politics and the economy work know
this.
Whose Fault was It?
By far the most dangerous myth is that deregulation is the root cause of
the problem.
The culprit was a system geared toward loaning money to people who were
not in a position to pay it back. Two policies underpinned that system:
easy money by the Federal Reserve and the government-induced lowering of
standards for approving loan requests.
In a recent paper for the Independent Institute, University of Texas
professor Stan Liebowitz argues that "in an attempt to increase
homeownership... virtually every branch of the government undertook an
attack on underwriting standards starting in the early 1990s... the
Clinton era."
Starting with the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934
and all the way to the norms that made Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae acquire
substantial loans given to people with weak credit.
Not surprisingly, once the Fed expanded credit, astronomical amounts of
capital poured into a housing market that people assumed was protected by
the government. What came next was a consequence of the original sin.
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, H.U.D., Bahney Fwank, Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo.
Who is responsible for the crash?
Democrats' lobbyist-induced denial to regulate Housing, led to Wall Street
collapse:
Barney Frank: I don't see anything in this report that raises safety
and soundness problems.
"These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing
any kind of financial crisis," said Representative Barney Frank of
Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services
Committee.
"The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there
is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable
housing."
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Anatomy of a bubble
Step 1. The intoxication: "My house is worth millions!" From 1995 -
2005, the number of sub-prime mortgages skyrocket. So did the house
prices.
Step 2. The hangover: "Oh my God, my house isn't selling. What went
wrong?"
WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE TRY TO STOP IT?
Someone did:
********* "The Bush administration today recommended the most
significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since
the savings and loan crisis a decade ago." - The New York Times,
September 11, 2003. ***************
But someone intervened to stymie the Bush administration. Who? The
New York Times reports:
Supporters of the companies said efforts to regulate the lenders
tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans
for lower-income families. . . . "These two entities - Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis," said
Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on
the Financial Services Committee. "The more people exaggerate these
problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we
will see in terms of affordable housing."
"The Bush administration today recommended the most significant
regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings
and loan crisis a decade ago."
"Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new
agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume
supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored
companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending
industry."
http://tinyurl.com/6lp5qu
"McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie"
"Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN
EVENTS learned."