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On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:00:02 -0800,  Alan says...  

> I was pointing out that Biden's administration wasn't involved.

Wrong.

"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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Trump WINS!

Donald Trump is the 47th U.S. president, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

Republican Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in the 2024 election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Trump, 78, will begin his second term early next year.

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the U.S. President on Monday, January 20, 2025, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. 

A Second Trump Administration            

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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."