Delivering bad news for N.D.

How about eliminating work days for Congress from 5 days per week to 0?

All 300 million US citizens would be free at last. Every single soul would rejoice, choirs would sing, dancing in the streets, children would finally be happy once more.

The world would go from dismal gray to bright, shiny colors in a New York minute.

I would be more than happy to deliver the bad news to Congress.

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I just read Congressman Issa's reasons to why the USPS has these types of mandates enforced on them. In theory, it makes sense. In theory the taxpayers could be left with the fiscal woes of this institution.

Factually...We know that as taxpayers we have been bailing out Wall Street for the last 30 years over and over again to the tune of 30X this theoretical amount but those unintended consequences are what... okay? I believe that anyone or anything that has the potential for govt. subsidy/bailout should have to stock up assets..ie (retainer) for the potential of collapse/handout... This could/should insure the taxpayers won't have to come to the rescue again.....yea right! Citizens should take a stand on this issue and simply tell Congress that this law is unconstitutional unless it includes all potential institutions that have the potential to be bailed out....period.

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I used to think that we should have only 3-day-a-week delivery of mail.

I have come together with high-information voters, the ones that are getting our Democrat Party steam-rolled into office, have come together with them in that we need MORE employment. And that we should IMMEDIATELY implement 7-day-a-week delivery by the postal service.

Can we not all reach across the aisle in knowing that will move the USPS forword....and thus move the nation forword?

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Funny how when the blame for the USPS's problems are entirely republican created, the MDN fails to mention who the culprits are by name. Two faced editorial board.

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ProgressiveLiberal: You aren't really correct when you say this was an "entirely republican" created. While the following bills were introduced in early 2005 by republicans, they had numberous democrat cosponsors. HR.22 1/4/2005 and S.622 3/11/2005. S.622 had 26 cosponsors of which 15 of them were democrats. Those two bills were reconciled to become HR.6407 which was introduce 12/7/2006. On 12/8/2006 it passed the house and on 12/9/2006 it UNANIMOUSLY passed the senate. Not one democrat voted NO. Am I disagreeing that this might have been a republican agenda item ... no. I am saying both parties share responsibility. Oh, BTW it became public law 109-0435 on 12/20/2006.

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Thank you, obertc, for your enlightening post.

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"I believe that anyone or anything that has the potential for govt. subsidy/bailout should have to stock up assets..ie (retainer) for the potential of collapse/handout... This could/should insure the taxpayers won't have to come to the rescue again.....yea right! Citizens should take a stand on this issue and simply tell Congress that this law is unconstitutional unless it includes all potential institutions that have the potential to be bailed out....period."

Common sense, Veritas. Good on ya!

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MDN must be cleaning up server storage....both my active comment and deleted comment numbers went WAY, WAY down....

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We can all come together to agree on that, Jack...I think...er, no...I feel.

(Serves me right for not reading the script before I came on.)

:-)

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Jack, what the heck? Mine, also! :-(

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Disgusted, mine too. Guess the site was getting bogged down with worried's posts. That'll lighten the load a bit.

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Wiped the slate clean. Oh, well. Is it like being born again?

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"Newspapers rely on the Postal Service to deliver our product to thousands of customers every day . . ."

Get off welfare.

Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

Stop asking everybody else to pay your way.

This country has too many takers and not enough makers.

No more free stuff.

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Somewhere Cliff Klaven is shaking his head

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neon???

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lorejaxxx?

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wadeinpeas???

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Saturday Morning Fun, eh guys?

:-)

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Wow!! Pausing for a moment..deciding whether 2 or 3 slices of Cloverdale ham was the right fix I had a revelation to the USPS dilemma...

Fat people.....Fat people can and should deliver the mail for....free.

I texted my constitutional buddy and he said there's nothing specifically protecting the obese (race,creed,gender..ya know) so why not! It's public knowledge that obesity costs 93 billion dollars a year in health related issues and the way I see it...It's a win win...

Get Richard Simmons out of retirement and implement a new slogan from.. "We deliver for you" to "A pound lost is a pound earned for America" or something like that. Statistically speaking...we could increase the mail service to seven days a week, 24 hours a day and all it would cost the taxpayers is a hundred million yellow vests in the event they are not seen.

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Hope4motivexxx

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Deliverin' to the oldies...

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name that pea

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This is dire news indeed.

We depend on the U.S. Government to pay for the delivery of our product to our customers!

What are we supposed to do? . . . Pay to Fed-Ex these papers all over the place?

How dare those dirty Communist - socialists implement the budget cut-backs we've been angrily demanding!

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Seven hours gone by and not a single fat person has weighed in on my idea. (Couldn't help it)

Come on America...They've been putting M&M's in smaller & smaller packages so...You can't find them in your waistband.....Or, Postal recipients could gesture the thanks thingy with a treat!!.****e on..Get out..Get going....

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Who's fat?..Doesn't like the fact he's fat...Blames his mother and then his father because he's fat....oh boy. His sister is fat but thats okay and uncle Bob is fat (really fat) but thats okay because Bob is a swell guy....Literally.. He's so fat he set off the anchor in San Diego last week....Well, my sister is so fat that

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