Think of all that fine city center and town square real estate, wasted on the PO. There is at least a few trillion profit waiting to happen on that front alone, when the murderous deed is accomplished. Then of course the main and most coveted prize...eliminating the competition. Are you ready for 30-100 dollar postal fees? The congress is about to make the PO an offer they can't refuse. An offer that will make the mafia dons pulling the strings of congress very very happy indeed. The unions and pensions....fugedaboudit. Congress has already stolen the pension funds they hiked to usurious levels in order to destroy the PO.

When those fine old granite buildings begin to be auctioned off, open only to the chosen and the five hundred thousand good jobs are eliminated, it will be too late.

What wonderful banks they will make. Location, location, location.

50-100+ stories behind those grand old facades, as in New York, covering an entire city block of nothing but great granite columns? the possibilities are endless for a quick windfall.

Are you drooling yet Donald?

Meanwhile the 99% loses another major cornerstone of its, once formidable foundations. Foundations that are constantly under siege by the greedy 1% flym flam artists; aka "the kingpins of the pugs".

shortsightedly preach. If allowed the strongest will consume the weaker.

the King of Hearts syndrome. The godfathers understand, that all you have to do to rule is gather the dumbest among us and voila.... today's government.

Sorry too late to rec. Thanks for bringing this paper to us.

Stupidity is what propaganda was invented to defend and stupidity is what is most easily sheepified. Just ask Freud's nephew.

fought back for all of us.....We Won! yeaaaaay

 
and that was why his face looks like a constipated babies bottom ready to blow.

File this under the 'hunu' file.

created by B*sh, 0 and congress(controlled by Dino's and repukes and Wall st); to force USPS to its knees, so the rethug vultures can pick its bones clean and sell the rest to the pug glue factory...leaving the people of this country destitute and holding the bag and under the thumb of another cartel, joining the drug cartel, the Bankster cartels, and the Oily cartels; the new maga shipping cartels, coming soon.

They have to hand over obscene sacks of money to treasury at gunpoint, (now used for taxcuts for the rich) for a bogus trumped up and oh sooo phony "reason" and cannot raise their rates, because 0 has appointed pug overlords who will not let them. Junk mailers are big donors to pug grifters and con artists in congress and government.

It is only when you get into the weeds of these kinds of cons and frauds that you see just who 0 really is and who's puppet he is.

If there is not a huge hue and cry....this shameful plan will be accomplished to the horrific detriment of the people of this country.

cluster bombs in his pocket that he is is unleashing on the people of this country to further his own ends. Ends that are in league with ALEC and the Cock(sucker) brothers.

to provide cover for the thieves and one striking at the truth.

As revenue slackens from redundant or useless mail...much higher revenue will be gained from online shopping; when the millions of packages are delivered and some returned by same method, as mine are. I get everything online, from drugs to gifts to small appliances, computer parts, electronics and the list goes on add infinitum...and more and more, as grumpy old codgers like me die off, many afraid of the computer, the young'ns coming up are made to learn the computer for their own survival...interfacing the world and learning how to make it work for them.

The post office will deliver 95% of what is ordered and so will shopping mall retailers send by USPS and are already clambering for the exponentially growing internet trade from all over the world.

Almost all of my mail and packages comes to me from the post office, everything including a kitchen sink.

Cutting back services is a purely pug stink.

It is the way they become billionairs.

It is their answer for everything, except of course when it comes to the 1% who would slap them upside the head as they understand better than they, how the game is played.

When I go to the post these days, the lines are long, but very fast moving, many holding packages for folks who have purchased something from them on Ebay...more are pakaging their goods at the side counter to be sent...it is a fast balooning fenomanon.

Very rarely and long ago, did a big private delivery truck, pull up to the front drive of my house to deliver a very large item that I bought on Ebay, now over 10 years ago...but all else comes through the post. Prescriptions, OTC medications, vitamins, again add infinitum, to the tune of about 5 packages a day, along with, way to much, junk mail offering free everything till death do you part...which as the postman feeds it through the door my dog furiously stamps it received with teeth marks punches as the postman dances around in glee....Multiply that by a couple hundred million back and forths, 6 days a week and you have a vital assembly line feed, connecting you to the world and connecting the world to you, for what amounts to pennies in the overall scheme of things.

Internet and PO are becoming symbiotic...one, in this age, cannot work successfully without the other.

Close it down and the private Fedexs' of the would, would go into overdrive and the way of the unregulated banks and drug cartels like vulchers, charging as much as 300 dollars a month for one prescription or gambling away this countries national heritage and at gunpoint forcing us to bail them out.

Do you even begin to think your simple thoughts through...

The Post has about 570,000 permanent employees and about as many part timers...Can you imagine what would happen to the economy if the PO closed its doors? Can you even begin to extrapolate...and what about the fleet of trucks, the largest in the world....consider the manufacturers...consider the parts manufacturers and mechanics...consider the restaurants around PO's, consider the paper and cardboard manufacturers and all their employees and how many of those would also close down; consider what is bought with the billions in salaries.... and I have touched but a few.

Consider what that that would do to an already failing economy...failing because of just this sort of ignorant short sighted thinking that is rampant in the puke party....This kind of fraud austerity, is a religion followed "devoutly" with a profoundly stupid zealotry that is destroying this country as it has many times in our past history.

And this is not the only gaping wound they are throwing acid on.

The problem at hand is a kaleidoscope of ramifications the pugs do not have the brains to even begin to understand.

What they do have in spades... is the ability to make billions off the downfall...

who cares about the millions of folks it would effect most drastically?

Like Newt suggests. That would not only solve the problem toot sweet and destroy the dreaded unions to boot; it would leave scads more money for taxcuts for the rich under the guise of funding pension funds out to the year 3 thousand.

Anyway that is your story versus millions of opposite leaning stories of the unwashed masses. RW predictions have a massive tendency to always be wrong and very short sighted...but so much money can be made in the chaos stirred up by those lame predictions.

Most of us prefer the post office just the way it is, very efficient and well run, providing millions of decent jobs without stimulus or bailout money required, while being levied billions for obscene taxcuts for the rich, to the tune of $5 billion a year.

For a self sufficient operation, I'd say that is one giant lift and one giant support beam to the foundation of this, fast becoming, bankrupt economy.

There were actual Japanese spies in the US, according to historical record; between 5 and 7 thousand, who were known, plotting to undermine and thwart the war effort; several plots of historical note are fully documented, upturned under discovery, after the war.

This does not excuse the decision...It is just one of the many mitigating circumstances effecting the war and its outcome at that time...Add to that, America had been savagely attacked and was in a war for it's very survival as a sovereign nation.

Be that as it may;

No apology can ever be great enough, to those incarcerated and the terrible hardship they had to endure; for no other reason, than that they looked like and by heritage, those we were at war with and were, in fact, by an overwhelming majority, not spies, but as loyal Americans as any patriot; an unjust circumstance that can never be reconciled.

When a president bears the unfathomable responsibility, and is under the weight and hysteria of Pearl Harbor, of saving the life of this country by war, when every piece of scrap metal and paper is being collected to insure success; the fact that 5 to 7 thousand spies plotting against this country on American soil, bears considerable weight.

FDR, who near single handedly created the middle classes of this country; who with a stroke of the pen, created the New Deal securing the elderly and downtrodden, certainly was one of the greatest leaders who ever lived in any century.

Are you the famous Bright, who could travel faster than light...you know, the neutrino thing that happened next week....If so...the meaning of "is" is "was"....sorry just couldn't help it...

slapping myself back to the matter at hand, good post and good way of putting it...but now OWS has made clear the meaning of change, for those brain challenged folks who could not get it if it was a cobra swaying to the music in front of their face...

Basically, get money the hell out of politics and our government...which would, in itself, effect that "change", putting us back on a system governed by the people and the constitution...but then for some it is easier to pretend they just can't figure it out...

A delusion without which, they could not be vicious, nasty and condescending.


As far as the silly part...

Ref: There was a neutrino called Bright....that could travel somewhat faster than light...leaving Cern on a Monday...stopped in Gran Sasso and came back the previous night...adding to and poorly paraphrasing from a clever poster who posted something vaguely like this on the faster than light discovery posted here on DU.

 
0's presidency and it was squandered, along with the huge capital we gave him during his election, while we witnessed the great "bi partisan" debacle that was as transparent as a fake diamond.

History changing events could and should have taken place.

Single payer...end of B tax cuts...financing the debt etc, etd, etc,....He could have led the call for the changing of the house and senate rules to marginalize the filibuster...and other ridiculous rules favoring pugs and the list goes on while he was busy appointing banksters to guard the henhouse and right wing pugs to cabinet and rw DLC'ers to lead important social program committees and asking religious right homophobe Warren to give the invocation; openly recruiting rethugs to run on the D ticket.

Yeah...it was a honeymoon alright, but it wasn't the Dems he was in bed with.

I guess that is what we should have expected, as it was the drug and banking cartels that gave him the big diamond ring in the first place.

for a mass murderer, insane or not.

More have escaped from mental hospitals than can be counted or for that matter have been caught.

If he escapes and repeats his crime, perhaps on a much larger scale, viciously killing hundreds of men women and children...again.

Of fairness...what then?

Norway would turn so hard right your head would spin.

It is moments like these in history, overt acts of mercy in the face of a heinous act, the rabid right slobber over...what brought Hitler to power...what brought us the patriot act and the loss of our constitution and so on and so on.

If this guy is insane half the GOP and all the religious right is insane.

For pugs it is the direct path to power and fascism.

Norway is risking far more than public outrage, they are risking fairness itself.

But then, the fascists in Norway already know this and its power for exploitation.