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  1. 01-27-2013, 04:26 PM #1
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    Cause and affect

    I get ready to ship something this morning and find out that postal rates have gone up to support LGM's unnecessary promotion and lavish lifestyle.

    All the while, little people like me have had their incomes cut by $4,700 per year. Man that redistributing sure is working out well for postal workers.
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    You make $240,000 a year? Your payroll tax was a 2% hit (back to where it was).

    Otherwise - I'm happy for LGM and hope the postal service gets treated well by this Congress
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    Quote Originally Posted by Broncogreg View Post
    I get ready to ship something this morning and find out that postal rates have gone up to support LGM's unnecessary promotion and lavish lifestyle.

    All the while, little people like me have had their incomes cut by $4,700 per year. Man that redistributing sure is working out well for postal workers.
    You found a post office open on Sunday?
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    Be careful, BG... Those post office workers tend to be a little sensitive and over-reactionary.
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    I have 2 postal workers in the family.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mingo View Post
    You found a post office open on Sunday?

    New thing in the world called pre-paid postage and PayPal. You use a computer. Probably has not gotten to the home yet. Check with your nurse. You might have it and not even know it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nflbronco View Post
    I have 2 postal workers in the family.
    No offense, but this is the problem. We all have family members who are teachers, postal workers, cops, fireman,ect. One way or another in the end there is no private sector left. That's why they worked for a hundred years to take over health care. Now there are more people who in one way or another will feel kindly inclined to government.
    What they don't understand---just like Paul Ryan said yesterday, the Clintons get it, this admimistration does NOT want to get it---is that the private sector is the golden goose that pays the frieght for everything. They are now killing the golden goose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Broncogreg View Post
    New thing in the world called pre-paid postage and PayPal. You use a computer. Probably has not gotten to the home yet. Check with your nurse. You might have it and not even know it.
    You don't think it is a value to send a 50 cent 1st class stamp - when it costs you probably that much in gas to drive to the post office and back? Or perhaps you are pining for the days when postage was subsidized. Maybe you don't know that UPS and FedX lobbying won't allow the postal service to compete with those private businesses for delivery. Or, maybe you don't know that the Postal Service is the only business in the US reguired by law to fund its retirement obligations years and years in advance of anyone's retirement.
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    Or that any profit we ever made doesn't go back into infrastructure or improvements, it goes to the govts. general fund. Hard to run a business that way, and conservatives made it happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mingo View Post
    You don't think it is a value to send a 50 cent 1st class stamp - when it costs you probably that much in gas to drive to the post office and back? Or perhaps you are pining for the days when postage was subsidized. Maybe you don't know that UPS and FedX lobbying won't allow the postal service to compete with those private businesses for delivery. Or, maybe you don't know that the Postal Service is the only business in the US reguired by law to fund its retirement obligations years and years in advance of anyone's retirement.

    I'm pining for the days when gas was $1.87 a gallon. When was that ? Oh I know , before Barry. Before he decided to stuff all our cash in his Saudie buddies robes.

    On a cheerier note.............

    The Tim I'm a tax cheat award goes to another lib............
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-in-taxes.html
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    Gas was .23 cents per gallon when Lyndon Johnson was president - so your point is?
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    It was actually .33 , but who is quibbling.

    Inflation is nothing more than a sneaky TAX. The pin head elites love it because they can get over on the weak and feeble minded. Obviously it works.
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    I was pumping that gas as a professional - so I don't need to be corrected - Georgia must have had a lot of taxes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mingo View Post
    I was pumping that gas as a professional - so I don't need to be corrected - Georgia must have had a lot of taxes.
    And who said the peter principle is not alive and well ? ;)
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    That's why I named my first son Peter.
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