Comments on: Free market’s lessons go untaught

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:32:54 +0000

Bob, I don’t think the fed. government does anything year after year, to bail out the USPS.

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:30:24 +0000

Bob, the USPS is required to prefund its pension costs for the entire lifetime of the respective plans, unlike any government agency. That is why it cannot keep itself sustained financially. Other than that, don’t tell me that the USPS is inefficient, when I deliver 350 pieces of first class mail to the post office one day, and they are received by those addressees all over the country the next day.

By: Ted Steele, Janitor

Ted Steele, Janitor — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:51:11 +0000

LOL– These blog baggers live in the Fox bubble—-Imagine if going out of business private companies ran the Country!

Bwahahahahaha—- let me catch my breath!

By: BobA

BobA — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:52 +0000

SeeSaw:

You need a reality check. If the USPS was so efficient then please explain why they’ve been losing money year after year after year. Is that your idea of efficiency? Please explain why 95% of all businesses use UPS or FEDEX for package shipping instead of the USPS.

In this day and age, the only thing keeping the USPS in business is junk mail and that’s a losing proposition. If it weren’t for the federal government bailing them out year after year, the USPS would die a natural death.

No matter how you slice & dice it, those are facts that you can not dispute.

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:00:49 +0000

The DMV and the USPS are both efficient and courteous. What else do you need from either of those agencies?

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:04:52 +0000

teddy……you think all of those things are done WELL?

PUT DOWN THE BONG AND STEP AWAY FROM IT.

Just because something is “done” does not mean it is done “well”

DMV anyone? USPS?

Or take the military……everyone who has been in the military knows it is hugely wasteful and inefficient.

By: Ted Steele, Janitor

Ted Steele, Janitor — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:11:16 +0000

LOL Poodle– in almost any enterprise a huge part of the cost is salary and benefits! My word– you know that right?

YOU honestly don’t think the gov can do ANY large org? Are you high again?

Roads
minting
our military
legislative systems
libraries
policing

lol the list of what gov does well is loooooong…….or do you think we should have AAA do some of these things? LOL

Poor Poodle!

Hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:25:12 +0000

The gov has failed at virtually every large complex program they have tried to run. They end up spending 80% or more of the program costs running it and on admin, not on the program itself….the Great Park at the El Toro Marine base is another perfect example of its failure

By: JLSeagull

JLSeagull — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:16:54 +0000

Back around 1990, the government seized the Mustang Ranch, a brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it went bankrupt. So should we expect any different outcome from the same government who couldn’t make a profit running a whorehouse and selling whiskey and still fail in spite of (presumably) not having to pay any taxes?

By: BobA

BobA — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:07:09 +0000

The old Soviet Union had a big and omnipotent government and it collapsed under it’s own weight. The “PIIGS” countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece & Spain)all have a big and omnipotent government and they are in the process of collapsing under there own weight. North Korea, Cuba and others all have omnipotent and omnipresent governments and if they weren’t virtual prison camps the would fail also. China is the lone hold out because the got wise to the virtues of capitalism and have grown a lot richer because of it but they still suffer under the inefficiencies of communism.

So the question is: which of the above countries is the model that democrats are trying to emulate? The evidence suggests that Greece is the preferred choice of democrats with the option of implementing the old Soviet style of government by coercion and force when it becomes necessary. Misery loves company.