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| No More Mr. Nice Guy |
Oh the judges understand "illegal", but that is different than "social justice". Somehow these judges don't believe that following the law is required. For that they should be summarily disbarred and impeached from office. | |||
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Unconstitutional laws should be repealed or disregarded. However, these judges are not acting on constitutional principles but rather personal bias under the guise of social justice (of which many facets are illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and/or unethical). These judges should be disbarred permanently. They are no longer practicing law as intended. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
This infection runs deep in the judicial circles, it's not just the feds.... Here's a current example in Daytona, a couple went to a school, husband assaulted a female deputy, took her taser from her, he was arrested and charged, The judge decided to change the sentence from what the law prescribed, went on a roll about the deputy, her ineptitude, wife caused the situation, poor training etc. Sheriff Mike Chitwood was not amused, https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/1739863 In FL these judges are elected, it's difficult to find information on judges backgrounds here, you really have to google it to find out if they are qualified or idiots... | |||
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Even Google isn't much help. | |||
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| Technically Adaptive |
Something will have to change soon. Recent article from Reuters: US Postal Service seeks reforms as it reports $9 billion yearly loss https://www.reuters.com/busine...rly-loss-2025-11-14/ | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
The only fix for the USPS is to privatize like the UK did with the Royal Mail. But it's going to be very complicated and not go down without a huge fight as the USPS is one of a few things IIRC that is specifically spelled out in the US Constitution as a government function. Brookings Institute article about this whole thing:
Return to sender: What privatization might mean for the future of the USPS | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
The incompetent sacred cow continues to waste money year after year. I would like to know why they (any administration) haven’t done it, already.
No it’s not “spelled out” anywhere in the Constitution. Q | |||
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| Technically Adaptive |
They have managed to become unreliable, service is so slow that other shippers are used. Do we really need them? with everything done on line and other options available. I think we can do without them completely, go with the times today. | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
Google Says.... The post office is in the Constitution, specifically in Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, which grants Congress the power to "establish Post Offices and post Roads". This constitutional clause gives the federal government the authority to create and regulate the postal system. Constitutional authority: Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 is the legal basis for the U.S. Postal Service. Congressional power: The clause gives Congress the sole and exclusive power to establish post offices and postal routes. Foundation for the USPS: Congress first exercised this power in the Post Office Act of 1792, which made the postal service a permanent part of the federal government. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Post offices are specifically mentioned:
From that one sentence, we got a fully federally run, then partly privatized postal system that needs to rethink its business model. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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A Grateful American |
Well, it won't be Overnight... The USPS delivers +/- 370 million pieces of mail a day. UPS, FedEx and Amazon deliver a combined +/- 40 million a day. You can bet the cost of delivery will increase, as the latter 3 (and other entities are stood up) to absorb that volume. Just as many "price increases to offset cost, contrary to nature, it goes up fast and comes down slow. If it comes down at all. Better would be a concise and deliberate plan to have investigative body set up to inspect, data collection, findings and analysis, then recommend a pathway to "fix" what already exists, rather than either scrapping it, or figuring out how to "hand off" the "estate". That effort would need to be a hard set timeframe, and ensuring the "right people" are brought together to manage the committee and a proper structure to the process to prevent a long, wasteful and poor investigation as often occurs in such scope. (along the lines of NTSB investigations, where a multi tracked critical path/workflow structured to be efficient while comprehensive, with a well defined goal) Even "privatizing in place", similar to "Bell System" breakup, where all existing Post Offices are "Privatized", there will be a lot of corruption and political and insider dealing. I am one that always looks for what can go wrong and how wrong it can go. The worst case. Because few bitch when everything is going good. And a majority never looks under the hood until they are stuck on the side of the road. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
https://www.theepochtimes.com/...mpaign=new&utm_term= Trump Proposes ‘Trumpcare’ Alternative to Obamacare ‘The insurance will be better. It’ll cost less. Everybody’s going to be happy,’ the president said. President Donald Trump this week elaborated more on how he would deal with health care subsidies and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), suggesting an account for people where payments can be made for health-related issues. The government shutdown that started Oct. 1 and ended Nov. 12 was, in part, due to a disagreement on how to handle health care subsidies that are due to expire at the end of the year. Over the weekend, Trump wrote in a Nov. 8 post on Truth Social that Senate Republicans should direct hundreds of billions in funding to people’s accounts, away from insurance companies, to purchase their own health insurance. When asked about that post during a Fox News interview that aired Nov. 10, Trump said that he wants “the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own health insurance.” “The insurance will be better. It’ll cost less. Everybody’s going to be happy. They’re going to feel like entrepreneurs,” he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “They’re actually able to go out and negotiate their own insurance. And they can use it only for that reason. That’s the beauty, only for the purpose. And if we did that, that would be so exciting.” He then added that it could be called “Trumpcare” or “whatever you want to call it.” Trump also criticized the ACA, known as Obamacare, and said that any health care program that replaces it shouldn’t use the moniker. “The premiums have gone up like rocket ships. And I’m not just talking about recently, I’m talking about for years they’ve been going up,” the president said, referring to the ACA, which was signed into law in 2010. Trump signed the government funding bill at an event at the White House on Nov. 12, ending a record 43-day shutdown. The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed the Senate measure on a mostly party-line vote of 222–209. Democrats wanted to extend an enhanced tax credit expiring at the end of the year that lowers the cost of health coverage obtained through ACA marketplaces. They refused to go along with a short-term spending bill that did not include that priority. Republicans said that was a separate policy fight to be held at another time. It’s unclear whether the parties will find any common ground on health care before the December vote in the Senate. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has said he will not commit to bringing it up in his chamber. Several Senate Republicans also said they’d favor an extension, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). He said in September that if Congress doesn’t act, some premiums will “skyrocket, and not by a little bit. We’re looking at massive increases. People will not be able to afford it.” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he thinks Congress should scale back the subsidies for the highest-income people who receive them. “I think we all know that access to health care is important and we take it very seriously,” he said in September. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz told Fox News on Nov. 10 that the White House is working on a new policy to replace the subsidies. “We have lots of great ideas,” Oz said. “But I don’t want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we’re going to do?” SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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Gives them the power to establish post offices and post roads, but are they required? The "Boz" | |||
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That would be a good thing... we've gotten word at work that our insurance costs next year will be "significantly higher."  Politicians seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around. — — — — — — — — — — — — God bless America. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
When I was a kid, my uncle was a mail carrier with the old USPO predecessor to the USPS. I recall very clearly that he loved his job and turned down promotion opportunities to keep walking his route. He carried a big, leather, mail bag that must have been pretty heavy itself. I can clearly picture the Pony Express rider on the shoulder patch of his winter jacket. I did some research, and it’s still not clear to me why it was necessary to make the change. The old USPO had a cabinet level Postmaster General that went back to President Washington. “Modernization” was cited as one reason. I don’t remember the adults in my life complaining about mail service, or its cost, back then. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Well... another masterclass in FAFO. Trunp baited Democrats to demand the release of the Epstein files by playing down his involvement and their significance only to reveal the Democrats were the ones who had closest dealings with Epatein and his accomplices. I know Johnson said in the past that Trump was an informant who helped gather evidence so I can't wait to see what Trunp and Bondi reveal in the coming weeks. The Democrats backed themselves into a corner and no amount of ai-generated photos of Trump standing next to Epstein or hoax emails/letters will save them now. We may finally see Bill Clinton serve prison time. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Won’t happen. Serious about crackers. | |||
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Yea, and how much of that is junk mail. 95% of the mail I get goes right into the trash. From Google Gemini: In fiscal year 2024, the USPS handled 57.5 billion pieces of marketing mail, which includes junk mail. | |||
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| A Grateful American |
About 1/2. (I cased and delivered mail once upon a time) Marketing mail is significant revenue to the USPS, so junk to you is $ to whomever would "inherit" the USPS system. Companies are not going to stop mail marketing because the mail is handled by private enterprise, and it will likely change nothing with regard to "junk mail". "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
>Again, I call BULLSHIT!!< Not picking on you personally HRK but “Google sez”, means less to me than what my 99 years old Mom says. Usually misunderstood or misheard. So congress can establish a Post Office. Big freaking deal. They say they can establish “Roads” which Google defines as postal routes. Again, BFD. It’s a losing enterprise and has been that for longer than any of us have been alive. Time to rethink this whole enchilada and build a new system. The thought that the Post Office was made as a “permanent part of the federal government” is just insane. They can do little except deliver junk mail and “Our records indicate your car or home warranty may have already expired.” My bills can be handled by email if need be. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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