Ny York Times article..

[naynay]

Read if you want, but it involves Bush am=nd the USPS

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/opinion/nocera-its-d-day-for-the-post-office.html

In 2002, it was discovered that the Postal Service was wildly overpaying its retirement obligations to the tune of $71 billion. Not surprisingly, it soon began advocating for ways to use some of that excess. One bill passed that did almost nothing to solve the problem. Later bills that would have fixed the problem, however, all ran into the same stumbling block: they would have ostensibly added to the deficit. And the Bush administration was adamant that it would veto any bill that wasn’t deficit-neutral.

[naynay]

[Torinoman]

they were over paying by 71 BILLION and fixing that issue would increase the deficit? i don get it. Also Bush said he would veto anything that increased the deficit, you act like thats a bad thing

[Broncojohnny]

they were over paying by 71 BILLION and fixing that issue would increase the deficit? i don get it. Also Bush said he would veto anything that increased the deficit, you act like thats a bad thing

Naynay told me the other day that if I pay higher taxes I would be "juicing the economy". So he probably doesn't even know what a deficit is. I think my five year old understands more about economics.

As for the subject of the article. I'd submit the idea that maybe, just MAYBE the post office should have raised prices or *GASP* not promised its workers so much. I know it is crazy to suggest that the government just spend less so call me nuts.

[Forever_frost]

I'm thinking that if the military is being cut and our pay and benefits are getting the axe because "we're being paid more than our civilian counterparts (what civilian counterpart to an infantryman?)" then the post office needs the same as does EVERY federal union bastard there is. Hell, even that commie FDR didn't like public unions

[jefehbk]

I'm thinking that if the military is being cut and our pay and benefits are getting the axe because "we're being paid more than our civilian counterparts (what civilian counterpart to an infantryman?)" then the post office needs the same as does EVERY federal union bastard there is. Hell, even that commie FDR didn't like public unions

Franklin Roosevelt was a great President...

[Forever_frost]

Roosevelt was a communist bastard who interned American citizens in violation of the Constitution

[jefehbk]

Roosevelt was a communist bastard who interned American citizens in violation of the Constitution

why? when? how? who? at least give some facts or instances to clarify your statement...otherwise it is without merit.

[jyro]

your google broke?
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&...iw=991&bih=685

About 4,200,000 results (0.43 seconds)

[Forever_frost]

why? when? how? who? at least give some facts or instances to clarify your statement...otherwise it is without merit.

Really? They aren't teaching about FDR and internment any longer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

He rounded up Italians, Japanese and German American citizens and carted them off to concentration camps for the duration of the war. They lost everything they had and it took 40 years for them to get the piddly 20k as reparation. And not everyone got it, only those who somehow had detailed financial statements and lists of property that was confiscated when they were kidnapped.

I thought everyone knew about that.

[Aceman85turbo]

why? when? how? who? at least give some facts or instances to clarify your statement...otherwise it is without merit.

cant tell if serious....


This is something taught in EVERY US history class, did you drop out of high school? College too good for you?

[futant]

( writes in book )

naynay = too stupid to understand what he posts about
jefehbk = too stupid to learn anything , ever

[The King]

Really? They aren't teaching about FDR and internment any longer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

He rounded up Italians, Japanese and German American citizens and carted them off to concentration camps for the duration of the war. They lost everything they had and it took 40 years for them to get the piddly 20k as reparation. And not everyone got it, only those who somehow had detailed financial statements and lists of property that was confiscated when they were kidnapped.

I thought everyone knew about that.

The xenophopic mindset of the country then probably demanded that such harsh measures be taken, so it's not just FDR himself that was to blame.

[Forever_frost]

Doesn't matter what was demanded. He signed an executive order to do it, it's all his blame.

[naynay]

so Anders Brevik was not too far off base?

and guys for the record i only post things to get you to see there are two sides to everything.. i read 1/4 of the article, felt it may contain some content, and i posted it for ya'll who sit on a computer all day to give me the cliff notes!