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justme
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2009 Nov 9, 8:06am
4x,
Can we stop ragging on the USPS postal service? They get a letter cross-country for 42 cents in 3-5 days. Nobody else can provide that service. USPS had a 2008 loss of $2.8B, or $2800M on revenue of $75B. That is is less than a $10 loss per citizen of the US.
You cannot be serious that this is an example of "government screwing things up". FedEx has a 2008 loss of $2B on revenue of $38B !! There's private enterprise at work for you, dude.
In general,
the blatant lying that "government cannot do anything right" has got to stop. It is false, counterproductive an plays into the hands of those who want nothing better than wrecking the government. Do not forget, the government belongs to *US* [that could perhaps be a new slogan].
Patrick
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2009 Nov 9, 9:22am
I'm pretty sure the generalized hatred of all government programs without regard to how effective they are is due to well-place propoganda (eg, Fox News) funded by very rich people who easily manipulate social tensions, patriotism, religion, whatever, to make sure they themselves can evade taxes and yet receive corporate welfare. See:
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-America-Politics-Social-Change/dp/0072876255
"there is a corporate community (Chapter 2) that is the basis for a social upper class (Chapter 3). This intertwined corporate community and social upper class have developed a policy-planning network (Chapter 4) and an opinion-shaping network (Chapter 5) that give them the means to win a majority of seats in the electoral process (Chapter 6) and to shape the policies of interest to them within the federal government (Chapter 7)."
Done!
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2009 Nov 9, 8:43am
You guys are thinking Kitty when there's a Tiger coming down the trail.
"Health insurance" is not "Universal Healthcare" you guys are throttling Irony.
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Patrick,
I'm curious, and I really don't want to get into a big debate, but I need to ask a question.
Clearly, you and I can agree that BIG government, helping BIG banks isn't good, and the problems we have today with the financial/banking/real estate collapse can be trace directly to the doorstep of congress and the banks in bed with each other.
Why then, do you defend, and support the governments take over of the medical industry? Sure , you can call it "insurance" reform if you like, BUT the point is GOVT. makes things WORSE when they get involved, just like with the real estate and mortgage markets.
How can you support govt. run health care , when congress has screwed up so much?
Larry
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