Liberal Forum

See this is where I stop reading your post, because if you're going to post in my thread, then you'd better bring the facts.You never paid my salary. The Postal Service gets no money from US taxpayers. It supports itself from the sale of stamps and other Postal products.You can even ask Clem. He posted a link in another thread that said:"The USPS, in addition to being essentially forbidden to earn a profit, receives no direct public funding."http://www.nationalr...bert-verbruggenYou're correct. It receives no direct public funding TODAY. That changed in ~1982. You are, however, given a government-granted monopoly on the use of people's mailboxes that prevents competition. Monopolies are a form of subsidy, BTW. That statement was total hogsnot.You and Clem both seem to think that you can get away with that **** here in my thread.Read back and see how Clem tried to squirm his way out of it when I called him on that ****. You do yourself a great disservice by parroting what you hear right wing pundits say, without fact checking it.That's where the title of this thread comes from. It's based on that premise that many right wingers tend to be like the Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, who blindly take their marching orders.And they never disappoint.How many times has the USPS gone to Congress, hat in hand, asking for an increase in the price of postage? What private industry do you know of that gets to wave its magic wand and increase its prices via government statute?The taxpayer subsidizes an inefficient postal service every day in the form of mandated rates given to the USPS via a government-granted monopoly.Are you familiar with H.R. 1351?In your eyes I seem to have committed a felony by trying to make a decent living to support my family.I really don't understand that whole attitude. I would never begrudge you or anyone else the right to make a decent living.So since you seem to have so much contempt for me, how about you stay out of my thread?What's the matter? Are you afraid to debate the post office with someone that has more than "rightwing" soundbytes worth of knowledge? Name me a private company that has a standing $15Billion line of credit with the Treasury Department. The USPS does.None of your **** business.Your questions reek of envy.I don't envy you in the least. I'm guessing that I make multiples of what the post office paid you. The difference is, nobody is subsidizing me. While you claim that the taxpayer isn't paying your way, you're speaking half-truths. The taxpayer is funding the USPS via stamp sales granted to an institution that has no competition by governmental edict.Ha, ha, ha, isn't it amazing how the moonbats who bleat endlessly in support of re-distributing Other People's Money in Marxist fashion are so sensitive about how much they've bilked others for?They've got theirs, so screw you!Say Missy, why no comment on how radical Obama and his spiritual mentor are?She doesn't want to speak about the facts because the facts will bite her in the ***. The facts are that postal workers make higher wages, have better healthcare and retirement bennies and are granted a monopoly to continue by the Federal government. 80% of the bloated costs at the post office are for unionized labor. We need to replace them with robots that can't "Go postal". LOL