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02-07-2013, 02:00 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: South Jersey
Posts: 7,727
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No More Saturday Mail For Dirt Poor USA
Nope. We can't even afford Saturday mail delivery anymore because the GOP are a bunch of nitwits. From the Washington Post website tonight:
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U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday delivery
....The announcement comes as the agency continues to hemorrhage money, much of it because of a 2006 law [passed by the GOP, of course] requiring the Postal Service to set aside $5.5 billion a year for health benefits for future retirees. The agency defaulted twice on the payments last year after reaching its legal borrowing limit. It has closed hundreds of mail-sorting hubs, reduced hours at thousands of post offices and reduced the workforce by 193,000 to cut costs.
full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...2e2_story.html
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One flew east, one flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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02-07-2013, 03:41 AM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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If guys like you can't even support the Republican stance on something like this, Lord have mercy if Democrats continue to run this country for another term after Obama....
I mean, this is a gimme....a NO BRAINER....and you scoff at it...why? Because a few union guys might be out looking for work soon?
If we can't CUT HERE, where the hell can we cut?
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02-07-2013, 04:10 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
Posts: 16,316
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I guess I will just have to wait until Monday for my mail from Gaspar Moschera.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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02-07-2013, 05:52 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 14,487
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The absolute truth is that the more we run the government like a business where each department is accountable the better off we all will be no matter what party that you are in.
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02-07-2013, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 8,429
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once a week would be fine for me. frankly 80% of what they put in my box is litter that immediately goes in a trash bin.
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02-07-2013, 07:19 AM
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Just Deplorable
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lebanon, Ohio
Posts: 8,072
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We'll always have email.
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02-07-2013, 07:44 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
Posts: 112,889
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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02-07-2013, 07:52 AM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
Posts: 52,822
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God forbid we actually have to pay for healthcare before it's overdue and a liability.
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02-07-2013, 09:30 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: On The Bay
Posts: 9,857
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I"ll miss all those Saturdays I was late arriving to the racetrack waiting breathlessly for the next batch of mail I could chuck in the trash.
C,mon NJ, you can't see the effectiveness in this move ? Seriously ? Where is the downside ?
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I wouldn't say I drink too much but my mother did tell me that my first words were" when does happy hour start"?
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02-07-2013, 10:38 AM
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Librocubicularist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 10,466
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
If guys like you can't even support the Republican stance on something like this,
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Exactly what is "the Republican stance on ... this?"
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Sapere aude
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02-07-2013, 10:58 AM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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Originally Posted by Actor
Exactly what is "the Republican stance on ... this?"
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What does it matter? They're powerless and irrelevant according to liberals.
Except they seem to be the one thing preventing Obama from actually achieving anything, because Republicans are always blamed by Democrats when they fail "yet again" to achieve any of their publicly stated political and/or economic goals....quite the boogey men these "irrelevant" Republicans appear to be. Some of the most powerful "gnats" ever invented it would seem.
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02-07-2013, 11:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Manhattan
Posts: 3,826
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I have the worst mail person, ever. All she does is sit in the lobby, eat greasy food, listen to rap music on her Doctor Dre headphones, and whine about how tired she is. I don't think she even delivers the mail.
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― Thomas Sowell
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02-07-2013, 11:06 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
Posts: 112,889
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Wonder how much money is needed to keep paying pensions and getting zero back on the investment?
Pensions are not sustainable.
The UNION killed the Saturday deliveries.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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02-07-2013, 11:50 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 8,429
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if cutting Saturday saves them $2 billion, and they lost $16 billion last year, if they cut out the other five days and don't deliver at all, would they still lose $4 billion a year?
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02-07-2013, 12:11 PM
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Librocubicularist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
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Originally Posted by Actor
Exactly what is "the Republican stance on ... this?"
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What does it matter? |
Why did you bring it up?
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