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Post by avordvet on Aug 2, 2012 4:53:02 GMT -5
60 House Bills to Name Post Offices, Zero To Fix Mail ServiceBy Amy Bingham, ABC News In the 18 months the 112 th Congress has been sworn in, the House has introduced 60 bills to rename post offices. Thirty-eight have passed the House and 26 have become law. During those 18 months, the House has produced 151 laws, 17 percent of which have been to rename post offices, according to Congressional Democrats. Not a single bill has come to the House floor aimed at reforming a Postal Service, which is bleeding billions of dollars because of Congressional mandates. news.yahoo.com/60-house-bills-name-post-offices-zero-fix-144624099--abc-news-politics.html
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Post by midnightrider on Aug 2, 2012 5:51:32 GMT -5
REBOOT CONGRESS
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Post by safetalker on Aug 2, 2012 7:16:19 GMT -5
That is because you have one Corporation (THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC) who required in the Clinton years that the other Corporation (THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE INC) hire all of the minorities on welfare rolls which were terminated by the Welfare bill without determining their ability to do the job. Those people are now at the retirement age and the first corporation can't help pay their retirement. With the lack of businesses which use postal service since UPS and FEDEX can get it there overnight for about what the post office gets it there sometime this week for. With no one willing to go stand in line for a drop off to a surly postal worker no stamps are sold, no PO boxes are rented, and no money is made. If it does fail and closes someone will jump in for about the same thing, but the governmnet will never allow their #1 cashcow to fail. They would have to start paying to mail their political election letters and not be able to call it Official Mail.
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Post by Cujo on Aug 2, 2012 7:44:55 GMT -5
Our government is so screwed up, from lavish parties, corrupt officials to corrupt elections. REBOOT & a Constitutional RESET, that's what it will take.
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Post by Michael Downing on Aug 2, 2012 8:30:25 GMT -5
House conservatives determined to slash spending relent on compromise deal
Washington (CNN) -- A congressional deal announced this week by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid would extend current government spending levels for six months, putting off threats of a government shutdown until after the November election decides the makeup of a new House and Senate.
The compromise denies conservative House Republicans -- including tea party-backed freshmen -- their strongest negotiating tool to enact the spending cuts they promised when running for Congress in 2010. But rather than opposing the deal, conservative legislators said Wednesday they were the ones pushing for it.
The strategic shift reflects the House GOP leadership's opposition to more budget brinksmanship that generates public hostility, as well as the recognition by the conservative freshmen that there was a limit to what they could achieve after the Democratic-led Senate has stalled most the spending cuts they passed in the House.
Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador, who participated in a series of meetings on legislative strategy over several weeks with House and Senate conservatives, told CNN that "there's a time to fight and there's a time to not fight."
The problem with Politicians is that by their very nature they always know there must be compromise. There may be a time to fight and a time not to fight but there is also a time to make a stand and not compromise. If there ever was such a time that time is now. As far as politicians go fug em all...
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