
Of course the crux of my argument was that the government can't run anything. It isn't the Dems or the REps or the Whigs or the Green Nazis or any other party. The government is designed to run things. At best they are set up to oversee things. There is NOTHING they run that works worth shit. The military is the closest thing they do right, and that still WAY over spends and isn't nearly as efficiant as it could be.

The point of the post was that if they can't run the current social programs why would anyone be so damn stupid that they would want the government to run Health care? The answer of course is that anyone who actually thinks about it is 100% against it. They say the definition of a fool is someone who repeats the same action looking for a different result. The a fool is someone who wants the government in charge of health care, or anything else for that matter.
For the record I don't pick on Hubman he is just the one who comments and doesn't see some things my way!
The pics are meaningless to the post I just like to put em in there cause I know y'all love to steal them. Click to embiggin em.
Hubman:
So the Postal Service is a social program that should be done away with?
Me:
Absolutely, if it is losing money. The point of course being UPS, Fed
X and many others actually MAKE money. How could that be when the
USPS is losing money???? Must be those running it, the dullest among
us no matter what party.
Hubman:
See, one could argue that UPS, FedEx and others have carefully chosen services that they can be competitive in and avoid less- or non-profitable services in order to protect the bottom line. That doesn't excuse the USPS for running a $7billion dollar deficit by any means, clearly there is gross mismanagement there. But I think UPS et al have an advantage in picking and choosing what services to offer, while the USPS is stuck with door-to-door delivery to every address in the country.

Here's another smack against the USPS- did you know that US airlines have to carry the mail at their own expense? Even with that tremendous market advantage, they still can't at least break even (which is all we should expect the USPS to do). Once upon a time, I worked for Pan Am for a short while and loaded my fair share of mail sacks in the belly of planes...
You know, the more I think about it, what goes through the mail nowadays that can't be done electronically? Maybe getting rid of the USPS isn't such a bad idea!
ME:
thats fair.
He is right that Fed Ex and UPS can choose to do things they know will be profitable. Why though would that have anything to do with USPS continuing to do things that cost the taxpayer money?
Anyway, I really wasn't advocating trashing the USPS, just saying DAMN if we can't keep something from hemorrhaging money that seems pretty simple like the USPS then how in the hell can we possibly run a doctor patient relationship from D.C.?
the answer is we can't. If this bill passes (which I think some form of it will) it will be a colossal cluster F*^k-o-rama.
Please unless you want the EXACT same idiots that run your local DMV, the USPS or any other government agency making life and death decisions for your kids, call/fax/e-mail/send smoke signal/ carrier pigeons or if you can't do that drive to the court house and stand out there and hollar.
Folks please think about that. We need to stop it. We need to stop the bleeding.

Y'all have a big weekend. Several more comments need addressing so stay tuned!








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