POLITICAL THREAD
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Completely real story. Last week I ordered a package and the company I ordered it through had USPS ship it. I was in my living room working when I hear the USPS truck pull up. No lie, the girl pulls up slides her door open, tosses a note out of the truck and begins to pull down my driveway. I ended up running out of my house and down my driveway to flag her down. She handed me my package and said, "oh I didn't think anyone was home." I walked back up and pickup the note she left. The note was the "no one here to sign, pickup package at closest USPS". First of all didnt need to sign for the package, 2nd of all she didnt even get out of her car and walk up my stairs and knock on my door to see if anyone was home. Literally pulled up, through the note out the door and drove off.
And you wonder why the USPS loses a ton of money every year while FedEx and UPS make profits. Whenever I hear about people wanting the government to run something (banks or internet), I always just think to myself, who actually prefers the USPS over FedEx or UPS? No one does because it sucks because its run by the least efficient corporation there is, the government.
That is pretty bad but don't lump all mail carriers together. The carrier we have goes out of her way to put packages in a safe dry place on our porch and if we receive a letter postage due she pays it herself and leaves a note.
Lol wut
He has a cult like following who think he was the greatest president in history when in fact he wasn’t. Reagan neither was no great president. People thought he was at the time but history is showing that ending the Cold War was the worst thing to happen to this planet from a geopolitical standpoint.
When my animals start telling me they want to be called transgender or anything but what they are they will be shot.Umm, okay.
Goes to show what kind of boys these liberals are raising today. They are getting what they deserve. Us older and conservative men not only can take care of you ladies but, "we can really take care of you".
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I'd guess this is mostly made up like most lazy memes are, but I see your point.
The only thing I would say is that if the 2 Trump numbers accurate (hint - they're not) - is that if he had managed to lose $1.5bb in net worth during this ****ing bull run, then he's a financial imbecile.
While I agree in general about federal agencies, the fact that we can send a letter from anywhere to anywhere in a few days for 50 cents remains one of the greatest deals in history.
THE greatest postage
Trump Fights to Fix Shipping Rates That Favor China.
Did you know that it costs significantly more to mail a package to Boise from Boston than it does from Beijing?
According to the U.S. Postal Service, it costs around $20 to mail a small parcel weighing 4.4 pounds from one U.S. state to another, yet mailing the same package from China only costs about $5. Millions of Americans who have purchased consumer goods online from Chinese sellers for a few bucks, shipping included, have likely noticed this disparity first-hand.
This shipping differential is the product of the U.S. government subsidizing Chinese shipments. The government estimates USPS delivers Chinese goods at a 40% to 70% discount, losing money on each package it delivers.....
#MAGA.
Had a female Drill Sergeant come into the office today complaining that she and her husband (both Staff Sergeants) will be going to Korea an about 6 months and that she did not want to go back there. When ask why she did not like Korea she said "Korea was great but, when we were there I had to actually work and go to the field for a week or two at a time". She said she was tired of having to work and when her husband makes E-7 (Sergeant First Class) she was getting out and living off of him. She is about 26 or 27 and came in the Army when she was 18. No kids yet, thank God.
THE greatest postagedealripoff in world history is coming to an end. I'm not talking about APO, but rather..............
Trump Fights to Fix Shipping Rates That Favor China.
Did you know that it costs significantly more to mail a package to Boise from Boston than it does from Beijing?
According to the U.S. Postal Service, it costs around $20 to mail a small parcel weighing 4.4 pounds from one U.S. state to another, yet mailing the same package from China only costs about $5. Millions of Americans who have purchased consumer goods online from Chinese sellers for a few bucks, shipping included, have likely noticed this disparity first-hand.
This shipping differential is the product of the U.S. government subsidizing Chinese shipments. The government estimates USPS delivers Chinese goods at a 40% to 70% discount, losing money on each package it delivers.....
#MAGA.
This is good news. There is no reason to discount their shipping. We should charge them extra.
Honestly, once any modern politician gets to Washington they suck. All of them make promises to blaze their own trail only to cave to special interests. With that said I did set a marker for a good president. HW Bush was the best president in the last 50 years. When faced with war he did what he had to, created an alliance with most of the world and did what needed to be done no more no less. As president he actually made he world a safer place where all the others left a more dangerous world to their successor.
I was in the foreign service in the 90s and spent lots of time in dangerous countries dealing directly with foreign policy matters as well as domestic affairs abroad. I think I know how to measure a president. My expectations are right on. No president on that list left office with the world as a safer place than HW. Reagan certainly did not and my comparison of Reagan and Obama is spot on. They both arrived into office with an economic mess. Both were able to climb out of that mess. Both are polarizing. Both destabilized the world. Both as charismatic as they come. Two very similar politicians from different parties. Anyone who can over look the level of danger caused by either of these presidents globally is drinking some serious koolaid. If the Soviet Union had not collapsed China would not be a super power. We wouldn’t be talking about Islamic extremism to the degree we have seen, likely Pakistan not India would not be nuclear powers, possibly even North Korea. Once the Soviet collapse occurred and they pulled from Afghanistan the focus became the USA for the mujahideen. Now I’m not saying communism is a good thing none of that. I’m saying the world was far safer with two defined super powers and with the Soviet collapse there are upwards of 12 nuclear devices unaccounted for from former Soviet states. There could actually be more because Russia had no way to ensure security of all materials.
A good president does no harm. Doesn’t care about public opinion, is forward thinking, and unifies. I’ll give you the fact that Reagan was able to bring the country together to a certain degree after war fatigue and malaise associated with the 70s but he did what was popular in toppling the Soviet empire without any fore thought. Ending wars with no exit strategy creates power vacuums and the devils who end up seizing on that power are worse than the ones toppled.
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Umm, okay.
That's a parody account
This professor at Maryland wants us to believe she was at a baseball game surrounded by white men who have probably noticed her and her skin color yet still are making remarks about her son of the same skin color and his name right there where she can hear it...doesn't pass the smell test, nothing she tweeted about happened. What is it about libs they have to make up these tales?
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Reagan and Obama both inherited difficult situations.
The key difference is that Reagan actually enacted policies to get us out of the predicament while Obama did nothing... fortunately the country recovered in spite of him.
Edit: It has correctly been pointed out to me that Obama DID NOT "do nothing". He did, in fact, institute many policies which hurt the recovery.
A more accurate phrasing would be "he did nothing to help".
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Both left the world far worse by ending wars in which there was no post war strategy. As soon as the Cold War ended the bs in the ME began. As for economic policies I don’t agree. Obama with a Democratic congress enacted severe regulations on banking and finance which did stabilize the economy. Now people can argue about those regulations and Obamacare but saying he did nothing is inaccurate. I know my democratic friends would say Reagan was no economic savant either.
So no kids (being a stay at home mom is the most honorable of all professions) AND she won't work?
See ya in divorce court bitch!
Uh, those financial regs HURT the recovery... they didn't help. I know, I've worked in this business for 32 years.
His regs choked off the IPO market... which is how newer, younger companies get access to capital markets.
And allowing the DOL to gain oversight over our industry... well, let's just say there's a reason his regs have been rolled back lol.
The average Joe has no idea as to the incompetancy of the Obama regime.
Oh i agree 100%. I'm just stating that the two private businesses in the market do it more efficiently and better and actually turn a profit doing it.
Reagan cut taxes and deficit spent, which works well when assets are undervalued.
I'd say your friends must not have been alive in the 80s.
Dodd Frank did not even pass until summer of 2010. The govt buying all the bad debt and throwing a $1T or pork into the economy plus the Fed keeping rates at near zero for several years pushed the recovery. Regulations did nothing.
Fed rates, amazing they kept them that low that long.
Gosh damn that CNN tweet about not enough good men out there for women...perfectly sums the past 3+ decades up.
Beat down the working man and his masculinity. Ship out predominantly male jobs overseas. Push women into the shrinking pool of jobs and give them preference. Castrate and coddle the upcoming generations. Encourage them to not be men. Disable them with drugs and government dependence. Shame them for being attracted to women....and on and on...
Years down the road..."Low marriage rates mainly because men aren't worth a shit nor good enough for women"
Folks, that's just one liberal progressive trend playing out...
