Thanks ActinAnAss !

[QueEx]

GOP plans to pay for 1 year of highway funds
with 10 years of postal service cuts
​

With the federal highway trust fund set to run out of cash in August, House Republicans are circulating a proposal to pay for a one-year extension by cutting back most U.S. mail delivery to five days a week.

The highway fund, which pays for highway and transit projects in all 50 states, is supported by a federal motor fuels tax that Congress hasn’t increased in more than 20 years and never indexed to inflation. Increased construction costs as well as higher fuel efficiency have eroded its buying power.

Rather than raise the tax or find some other stable source of revenue, Congress has borrowed $54 billion in general funds since 2008. The House Transportation Committee projects that as much as $15 billion would be needed to extend the highway fund for just one year.

The Republican proposal would eliminate the delivery of first class and bulk mail on Saturdays. Packages, priority and express mail deliveries would continue, and post offices would stay open on Saturdays. The plan would save $10 billion over 10 years _ funds that would help offset a one-year extension of surface transportation programs.

House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Whip Kevin McCarthy noted in a memo to GOP members that the postal service overhaul was supported by both the House majority and the Obama administration anyway.

“We firmly believe that this is the best way to ensure continued funding of highway projects in a fiscally responsible manner that implements a needed structural reform to a growing federal liability,” they wrote.

But some Democrats called the plan highway robbery.

“If House Republicans want to prevent a taxpayer bailout of the Postal Service, they should focus on passing comprehensive postal reform legislation, not shirking the responsibility of making tough decisions regarding the future of our nation’s infrastructure,” said Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat who said he prefers long-term solutions for both the postal service and the highway fund.

States actually plan their transportation projects for five or six years at a time, not just one. And states depend on the federal program to reimburse them for 52 percent of their highway and bridge investments, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Trucking Associations strongly support increasing the gasoline tax, but neither their traditional Republican allies in Congress nor the Obama administration have committed to it.

Email: ctate@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter: @tatecurtis
​

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/30/228972/gop-plans-to-pay-for-1-year-of.html#storylink=cpy

 

[thoughtone]

I wonder if the cuts will come directly from the Ft. Worth district.

The GOP want the Post Office dead so FedEx can take over the mail!

 

[QueEx]

Typical.

 

[thoughtone]

Typical.

Lurkin'!

 

[actinanass]

Should you all be happy that I might get fired?

I mean, I'm this uppity black republican that needs to be knocked down a peg right?

*btw, I know what they are cutting because I know my job...*

The problem with folks on this board is that people believe in zero sum gains.

The reality is, UPS, Fedex, and the postal service all need each other.

If one goes down, the other two will not be able to carry the slack *remember the ups strike...*.

What the GOP want is the postal service becomes fully privatized *which would be way more efficient than it is right now*.

*edit* BTW, Amazon is saving the post office.

 

[QueEx]

Should you all be happy that I might get fired?

No 3A! I am not happy that you or anyone else might get fired. But when your party faithful wants to stick you up the rear, I just thought it was post-worthy.

I mean, I'm this uppity black republican that needs to be knocked down a peg right?

No 3A; you're down enough pegs already; you just dont know it. But, when your party faithful wants to further stick you up the rear, I just thought that made it post-worthy.

The problem with folks on this board is that people believe in zero sum gains.

The reality is, UPS, Fedex, and the postal service all need each other.

If one goes down, the other two will not be able to carry the slack *remember the ups strike...*.

What the GOP want is the postal service becomes fully privatized *which would be way more efficient than it is right now*.

This, 3A -- is why I thought the whole thing to be post-worthy. They're cleaning your clock and you don't know what time it is!

 

[thoughtone]

Should you all be happy that I might get fired?

What, are you special? A lot of government workers have gotten fired (laid off), through no fault of their own, due to republican politics. I hear no empathy from you for their situation. In fact, if I were go back and post your comments, you blamed them for their own unemployment.

I mean, I'm this uppity black republican that needs to be knocked down a peg right?

You just don't get it! "Uppity black" is a racist term used by racists southern Confederates to describe "Black" folk who dare to step out of the their so called place.

Is that how you view yourself?

The problem with folks on this board is that people believe in zero sum gains.

The reality is, UPS, Fedex, and the postal service all need each other.

If one goes down, the other two will not be able to carry the slack *remember the ups strike...*.

What the GOP want is the postal service becomes fully privatized *which would be way more efficient than it is right now*.

Absolutely wrong! UPS and Fedex need the postal service. Not the other way around. The USPS existed 115 years before UPS and 179 years before Fedex, thank you. In fact, the USPS delivers to the most rural and remote areas at the same rates that they deliver to the most densely populated urban areas. If the USPS became privatized. do you think that would continue? UPS and Fedex would never do that.

The USPS is much more efficient than either of those companies. They don't have to pay executives bloated salaries. In fact, the USPS is being handcuffed by the republicans in congress.


source: Think Progress

It is true that USPS is facing fiscal challenges — it lost nearly $20 billion over the last four years and is at risk of not being able to meet a $5.5 billion mandated payment to the Treasury at the end of this month (which has been put off six weeks thanks to the last continuing resolution in Congress).​

But what has been lost in the political debate over the Post Office is why it is losing this money. Major media coverage points to the rise of email or Internet services and the inefficiency of the post model as the major culprits. While these factors may cause some fiscal pain, almost all of the postal service’s losses over the last four years can be traced back to a single, artificial restriction forced onto the Post Office by the Republican-led Congress in 2006.​

At the very end of that year, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.”​

As consumer advocate Ralph Nader noted, if PAEA was never enacted, USPS would actually be facing a $1.5 billion surplus today:​

The fact is that the ultimate reason the republicans want to destroy the USPS as we currently know it is because they are the largest unionized work force in the United States.

The republicans have successfully blown up most of the labor union membership since the Reagan administration.

For 70 plus years, the largest employer and largest union membership was GM, and they paid wages that supported lifestyles that permitted people to own homes, put their children through college and have dignified retirements. Today the largest employer is Wal Mart and they pay wages that qualify workers for food stamps and have to have 2 and 3 jobs just to make ends meet.

Privatization of the USPS would mean more money for a few (the lobbyists pushing the republicans to destroy the USPS), lower wages for workers (destruction of the Postal Workers union) and more expensive services for everyone else (variable rates based on distances from post offices).

This, 3A -- is why I thought the whole thing to be post-worthy. They're cleaning your clock and you don't know what time it is!

I have no idea why AAA is so loyal to the GOP. I am not loyal to the democratic party, they just have ideas I am more aligned with. I won't defend them when they fuck up. Especially when it concerns "Black" folk.

The Republicans are literally fucking over you and you continue to vote against your own best interests.

 

[actinanass]

I love how it's always two to one on this board.

Seriously, this should be a great day for both of you. If I lose my job, that means you were right all along right?

Maybe I'll have to go on public assistance, and really struggle.

I would get what I deserve right?

Hell, maybe I'll have to apply for obamacare. Wouldn't that be ironic?

*edit* My own best interest is beyond the post office.

 

[thoughtone]

I love how it's always two to one on this board.

Seriously, this should be a great day for both of you. If I lose my job, that means you were right all along right?

Maybe I'll have to go on public assistance, and really struggle.

I would get what I deserve right?

Hell, maybe I'll have to apply for obamacare. Wouldn't that be ironic?

*edit* My own best interest is beyond the post office.

R.V.C.



Republican Victim Syndrome


Your best interest is a job. Preferably a good paying one. The post office is a good job, with benefits.

I get it, republicans are concerned that workers are making too much money and getting benefits.

 

[actinanass]

R.V.C.



Republican Victim Syndrome


Your best interest is a job. Preferably a good paying one. The post office is a good job, with benefits.

I get it, republicans are concerned that workers are making too much money and getting benefits.

How are you going to dictate what my best interest is?

What makes you think that I want to stay as a mail carrier all my life?

You do not fucking know me other than my slight participation on this leftist ass political board.

You have no idea what I do outside of the post office.

 

[thoughtone]

How are you going to dictate what my best interest is?

What makes you think that I want to stay as a mail carrier all my life?

You do not fucking know me other than my slight participation on this leftist ass political board.

You have no idea what I do outside of the post office.

How are you going to dictate what my best interest is?

What makes you think that I want to stay as a mail carrier all my life?

Your best interest is to make as much money as possible. How is eliminating your job for political reasons in your best interest?

I hope you have more ambition than to just be a mail carrier, although being a mail carrier is respectful and honorable work, despite what the right wing thugs say.

You do not fucking know me other than my slight participation on this leftist ass political board.

Nobody is forcing you to join and pay to be on a porn board. I guess that is good old right wing conservative values. So it's a leftist board if the masses of ditto heads are crashing it.

You do not fucking know me other than my slight participation on this leftist ass political board.

Great!

I hope you are absorbing some of those left wing values, because right wing hypocrisy ain't making it.

 

[actinanass]

Your best interest is to make as much money as possible. How is eliminating your job for political reasons in your best interest?

I hope you have more ambition than to just be a mail carrier, although being a mail carrier is respectful and honorable work, despite what the right wing thugs say.



Nobody is forcing you to join and pay to be on a porn board. I guess that is good old right wing conservative values. So it's a leftist board if the masses of ditto heads are crashing it.



Great!

I hope you are absorbing some of those left wing values, because right wing hypocrisy ain't making it.

when I talk about board, I talk about the political board.

The sad thing is that you still think one side is better than the other. How I look at it, we need to use both sides instead of only supporting ONE side, and making excuses when they fuck up.

A lot of times when I'm on this board, I ignore the political board all together because it's pointless at this point. You believe that I'm an idiot for my beliefs, and I think you are mistaken for continue supporting a party that doesn't hold itself accountable for anything.

The funny thing is that even if I don't post/lurk on here, you all still mention me. Again, if I'm such an idiot, why are you worried about me potentially losing my job?

Are you scared that many folks that I work with won't blame the republicans like you want them too?

Maybe, they might get the idea that our President is pushing this?

Don't worry, the media will always blame the right for everything that happens in this country. We all know that democrats do no wrong...

 

[thoughtone]

when I talk about board, I talk about the political board.

The sad thing is that you still think one side is better than the other. How I look at it, we need to use both sides instead of only supporting ONE side, and making excuses when they fuck up.

A lot of times when I'm on this board, I ignore the political board all together because it's pointless at this point. You believe that I'm an idiot for my beliefs, and I think you are mistaken for continue supporting a party that doesn't hold itself accountable for anything.

The funny thing is that even if I don't post/lurk on here, you all still mention me. Again, if I'm such an idiot, why are you worried about me potentially losing my job?

Are you scared that many folks that I work with won't blame the republicans like you want them too?

Maybe, they might get the idea that our President is pushing this?

Don't worry, the media will always blame the right for everything that happens in this country. We all know that democrats do no wrong...

How I look at it, we need to use both sides instead of only supporting ONE side, and making excuses when they fuck up.

In reality there is a correct answer to solutions and the right's answers have not been them for that last 30 years.

Can you say that mass privization has made the majority of American's lives better?

 

[VegasGuy]

R.V.C.



Republican Victim Syndrome


Your best interest is a job. Preferably a good paying one. The post office is a good job, with benefits.

I get it, republicans are concerned that workers are making too much money and getting benefits.

Exactly. His best interest is about to cancel his meal ticket and he continues to pretend its no big deal. All that work for all those years about to get flushed because he believes the crackers he protected on this board was going to return the favor. WRONG!!

Bottom line, your standard of living is about to take a radical shift. And if you think you are going to "get-out-of-line" and protest how wrong this is, think again. Or, you can simply keep your head in the sand and think this won't affect you. Either way, life as he knows it is gonna change. He better hope he's a cracker or at least passing for one. Watch gunner be the first to carve his ass up the moment he talks about unfairness.

-VG

 

[actinanass]

In reality there is a correct answer to solutions and the right's answers have not been them for that last 30 years.

Can you say that mass privization has made the majority of American's lives better?

I can ask you the same question about mass socialism.

To be completely honest, even after the recession, there's still more millionaires due to more private entrepreneurship than any other time in American history.

The real question is, are you willing to destroy that opportunity?

To answer Vegasguy, nothing in this world is guaranteed. I can't control what any job does. However, I can adapt to the situation when it's time.

In November, I would be at the post office for 10 years. I'm in one of the best economic states in the country. I will be ok.

 

[VegasGuy]

I can ask you the same question about mass socialism.

To be completely honest, even after the recession, there's still more millionaires due to more private entrepreneurship than any other time in American history.

The real question is, are you willing to destroy that opportunity?

To answer Vegasguy, nothing in this world is guaranteed. I can't control what any job does. However, I can adapt to the situation when it's time.

In November, I would be at the post office for 10 years. I'm in one of the best economic states in the country. I will be ok.

No, you can't control it nor do you know how to. You allowed these crackers to convince you being broke and looking for work is better than helping to grow a business bottom line. Never have I ever seen so many crackers come out in favor of poverty being a good thing. Notice, they ain't suffering and you help them to eat all while they work to push the bill on you. Amazing. Work harder than anyone I've ever seen to kill their own job to hurt the president. Teabaggers are a special breed of stupid. Kill your own job and brag about it to rich crackers to make them happy. Sick. In the meantime, lets hope your family has what it needs including health care. I just know they cheer you on. Wait, they don't know do they? Tell em "Benghazi" and its all good. haha.

-VG

 

[actinanass]

No, you can't control it nor do you know how to. You allowed these crackers to convince you being broke and looking for work is better than helping to grow a business bottom line. Never have I ever seen so many crackers come out in favor of poverty being a good thing. Notice, they ain't suffering and you help them to eat all while they work to push the bill on you. Amazing. Work harder than anyone I've ever seen to kill their own job to hurt the president. Teabaggers are a special breed of stupid. Kill your own job and brag about it to rich crackers to make them happy. Sick. In the meantime, lets hope your family has what it needs including health care. I just know they cheer you on. Wait, they don't know do they? Tell em "Benghazi" and its all good. haha.

-VG

1. I'm not bragging about anything. I'm simply talking about the reality that every citizen has to deal with at one point of their life.

2. I'm not broke, and I still have my job. This bill has not been passed yet. In fact, where I work at probably will be left unmolested.

3. You are assuming that I would run for help. I have no kids, just a wife. If the unmentionable happens, I'm only responsible for my wife. She works also, and have insurance. Again, we are good either way.

4. From what I read, this bill doesn't kill any jobs as of yet. They have been trying to get rid of Saturday delivery since my 2nd year. In my office, we actually have folks who run things on Sunday.

5. The problem with folks like Thoughtone, and Vegasguy is that they're just miserable by nature. They are so miserable, that they are angry at me for not being angry at a situation that I cannot control. They make assumptions about the crowd I keep, and how I act around that crowd. Assumptions come from how one views the world. How they actually act when they are around other races. They assume that I'm some type of happy, boot licking, coon who just tap dance my way through life. In reality, they are the ones who are like this. Standard deflection tactic.

People like this is really a waste of everyone's time.

 

[thoughtone]

00000

I can ask you the same question about mass socialism.

To be completely honest, even after the recession, there's still more millionaires due to more private entrepreneurship than any other time in American history.

The real question is, are you willing to destroy that opportunity?

To answer Vegasguy, nothing in this world is guaranteed. I can't control what any job does. However, I can adapt to the situation when it's time.

In November, I would be at the post office for 10 years. I'm in one of the best economic states in the country. I will be ok.

To be completely honest, even after the recession, there's still more millionaires due to more private entrepreneurship than any other time in American history.

This goes against all the reports that I have been hearing. Even the most right wing posters on this board have acknowledged that the middle class has shrunk, the numbers of those below the poverty line have increased and the wealthy have gotten wealthier.

Report after report has stated that the US is at or near the bottom of industrialized nations in economic mobility.

If you even think about your statement logically, how could it be true?

Overwhelmingly most Americans have their wealth tied to their home value. Home values have fallen since the recession. Unless you live in the big northeastern cities, the west coast or the DC area, chances are your home is worth less than it was prior to 2008.

The real question is, are you willing to destroy that opportunity?

Are you serious? So you're saying prior to the mass privatization of the Reagan era, there was no opportunity in the US? There were no millionaires or billionaires? I'm old enough to remember before the Reagan error, that there was a television show that bragged about the obscenely wealthy and their perverted life styles; Dallas!

I have no idea why you sympathize with the top 3% tax bracket. They and you are always worrying about how much the poor and average wage earners make and if they are making too much. You can bet the 3% could give two damns about you. In fact, the less you make, the more they make!

And if you have delusions of grandeur about becoming a member of the 3%, you need to worry about that when and if you become a member, because as of now you are much closer to the lower end than the higher end.

Right now, your interests lie in the working class. You think it's easy getting a good paying job with benefits theses days without a good college education?

Yes, aspire to higher goals, but kissing ass, voting for issues that will make the rich richer and advocating for lower wages while the wealthy call you a sucker won't get you any closer to a ranch home in Westlake.

You must have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome or something!

 

[thoughtone]

5. The problem with folks like Thoughtone, and Vegasguy is that they're just miserable by nature.

No, that's this type:

Look who's judging now!

 

[Upgrade Dave]

I can't believe I missed this thread.
Not to gang up on AAA but to see if he's still working hard to deny reality.
I see he is and has decided the victim route is the way to go. He really is a Republican.

In reality there is a correct answer to solutions and the right's answers have not been them for that last 30 years.
Can you say that mass privization has made the majority of American's lives better?

I would correct you there, T1. The Right's answer have never been correct: slavery, segregation, anti anything that benefits the masses of people.

I can ask you the same question about mass socialism.

To be completely honest, even after the recession, there's still more millionaires due to more private entrepreneurship than any other time in American history.

The real question is, are you willing to destroy that opportunity?

To answer Vegasguy, nothing in this world is guaranteed. I can't control what any job does. However, I can adapt to the situation when it's time.

In November, I would be at the post office for 10 years. I'm in one of the best economic states in the country. I will be ok.

Ah, typical Republican-Right wing nonsense. No one is suggesting mass socialism, not one person. The way that has worked and has been shown to work is the mix of socialism and capitalism that's worked well since FDR.

You must have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome or something

His chosen party has only been trying to kill his employer for as long as most of us can remember and yet he repeats their rhetoric like he can't access Google/Bing to see if they make sense.

 

[thoughtone]

I would correct you there, T1. The Right's answer have never been correct: slavery, segregation, anti anything that benefits the masses of people.

I said that to say this, the basis of the rights policies has always been to benefit them (wealthy, white christian male population) only. They have a perverse philosophy that the more inequality and wider the income gap is, the better society will be.

They would argue that slavery created the basis for wealth that benefited the country as whole. Segregation preserved their culture, values and way of life.

As I said, it is correct for them. As long as they are not inconvenienced.

What is mind boggling to me is that the slave mentality of the big house burning down and the slave saying "our house burning down massa", is all to prevalent among many "Black" folk.

I could possibly understand a poor white sympathizing with the wealthy's causes. They have been taught that even though they are poor, at least your not a n*gg*er and you will always be better then them.

But "Black" folk with that mentality?

 

[actinanass]

It's remarkable how brain washed folks are.

1. I did not make this post, Que did. I rarely post on here because I feel that it's pointless.

2. I only entertain this bullshit because I thought that you all would enjoy the republican losing his job. *although I was being heavily sarcastic*

3. Since I've been accused of "denying reality", let me state whats really going on.

I have no control over this bill. I can only do what I know what to do for me, and my wife. That means to survive. I'm not worried about this bill because I know the reality of my job, and where I'm located. I've been at the post office for 10 years, with a great record. I have nothing to worry about.

The personal attacks on me doesn't change this fact.

BTW, the more black America blames white America, the less progress black America will achieve.

 

[Upgrade Dave]

I said that to say this, the basis of the rights policies has always been to benefit them (wealthy, white christian male population) only. They have a perverse philosophy that the more inequality and wider the income gap is, the better society will be.

They would argue that slavery created the basis for wealth that benefited the country as whole. Segregation preserved their culture, values and way of life.

As I said, it is correct for them. As long as they are not inconvenienced.

What is mind boggling to me is that the slave mentality of the big house burning down and the slave saying "our house burning down massa", is all to prevalent among many "Black" folk.

I could possibly understand a poor white sympathizing with the wealthy's causes. They have been taught that even though they are poor, at least your not a n*gg*er and you will always be better then them.

But "Black" folk with that mentality?

Especially a working class Black man.

It's remarkable how brain washed folks are.

1. I did not make this post, Que did. I rarely post on here because I feel that it's pointless.

Did anyone say you did make this post?

2. I only entertain this bullshit because I thought that you all would enjoy the republican losing his job. *although I was being heavily sarcastic*

Speaking only for myself, there is no pleasure in the idea that you may face a job loss not of your own doing.
But you have always been a special case to me because how someone who works for the postal service could remain a Republican knowing they are committing a full scale assault on your employer for no good reason other than naked ideology has fascinated me to no end.
You even repeat their long disproven talking points.

3. Since I've been accused of "denying reality", let me state whats really going on.

I have no control over this bill. I can only do what I know what to do for me, and my wife. That means to survive. I'm not worried about this bill because I know the reality of my job, and where I'm located. I've been at the post office for 10 years, with a great record. I have nothing to worry about.

That's nice for you personally but this bill has the potential to affect thousands of people in similar positions but without the protection of seniority.
Sucks to be them, huh.

BTW, the more black America blames white America, the less progress black America will achieve.

"The more" as opposed to what? Is there a correct level of blame we should place on White people? Or should we just pretend that all of the sins of White folks ended in 1968 (or 2008)?

 

[actinanass]

"The more" as opposed to what? Is there a correct level of blame we should place on White people? Or should we just pretend that all of the sins of White folks ended in 1968 (or 2008)?

I've never used the word "pretend" in a political discussion.

I'm saying that today, with the problems we have in the black community, white people are irrelevant. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the fact that some things that happened in our past did in fact happened. However, there's things that WE need to do to make our community stronger. Upgrade, I made a post on the main board about a black political agenda.

Right now, I've yet to find someone who can lay out a black political agenda that would both be productive, and strong enough to beat off outside pressures. A lot of folks talked about reparations "crumbs from the bakery IMO". The true problem with our community is that we are so focus on skin color, and not enough on character/ethics. We have forgot how to hold our politicians accountable for their failures. We give excuses for bad behavior, and we put too much faith in a government that once enslaved our ancestors. That's one reason I disagree with many on here about gun control.

 

[thoughtone]

I've never used the word "pretend" in a political discussion.

I'm saying that today, with the problems we have in the black community, white people are irrelevant. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the fact that some things that happened in our past did in fact happened. However, there's things that WE need to do to make our community stronger. Upgrade, I made a post on the main board about a black political agenda.

Right now, I've yet to find someone who can lay out a black political agenda that would both be productive, and strong enough to beat off outside pressures. A lot of folks talked about reparations "crumbs from the bakery IMO". The true problem with our community is that we are so focus on skin color, and not enough on character/ethics. We have forgot how to hold our politicians accountable for their failures. We give excuses for bad behavior, and we put too much faith in a government that once enslaved our ancestors. That's one reason I disagree with many on here about gun control.

I've yet to find someone who can lay out a black political agenda that would both be productive, and strong enough to beat off outside pressures.

I have. From several, and it ain't from a "Black" republican!

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