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I like Trump in general, but the USPS is also basically my favorite government organization, so this irks me. USPS has always provided superior service for us

I like Trump in general, but the USPS is also basically my favorite government organization, so this irks me. USPS has always provided superior service for us compared to UPS or Fedex. I am hopeful they'll be able to fix their budget issues by fixing their cost structure. It seems completely asinine to block their ability to make sound financial decisions and force them into providing an inferior service instead.

DFHippie 6y ago
You can fix their budget issues by removing the burden placed on them in 2006 that they fund their pension obligations for 75 years. No other entity, government or private, labors under this burden, providing for the retirement of employees who are not yet born. They were profitable for the six years before this law was passed, by Bush and the Republicans, and they would have been profitable for the last 6 years had it not been for this law.
RealityVoid 6y ago
Looking from outside the country: how? How can you like him? I know I will probably not start a good discussion by my question. But I hope to do so. What could someone like in this man? I struggle to find any redeeming qualities. Not from the US, but looking from the outside, it seems your country is collapsing on itself and people are cheering on this word little individual that shows little abilities. Just puzzling to me.
- war1025 6y ago
  > How can you like him? Consider that all major US media outlets are driven by ad-spend, which is in term driven by views. Views are driven by outrage. Trump is a great target for outrage. The media love to hate him. He loves to let them hate him. If you turn off the news, the country is in general humming along just fine. Stock market is doing great. No new wars. Finally doing something to address major trade imbalances with China. If you listen to the news, everyone and their mother is dying in the streets of coronavirus. In reality, roughly 1-3% of the population has even caught the virus. Deaths are way down from March/April. For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great.
  - lovehashbrowns 6y ago
    COVID deaths are trending up, with 1,499 deaths reported for August 12. We're at 166,023 deaths total. Schools forced to open. Terrible quarterly GDP. COVID relief going to Trump's friends. A looming housing market collapse with evictions on the way. Massive unemployment. Probably a second quarantine in the fall due to the awful way that the response has been handled by the federal government. USPS fiasco by trump and his buddy having a conflict of interest with being a post master for the USPS and his investments + ties to XPO. trump's tweet that suggests postponing the election. trump and co's promotion of goya. trump's "It is what it is" response to 160,000 American deaths from COVID. trump's attacks on protesters and response with federal agents in Portland. I can literally go on and on. This is just what I had the effort to type out. How are these things pretty damn great? Just one or two of these should have a massive negative impact on any politician.
  - RealityVoid 6y ago
    > For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great. Even _assuming_ everything is great, would it _really_ be his merit? I mean, everything that man did has been counter-productive for your country. He is a bumbling idiot. He really is. What merit does he have? I just can not see it. The fact that "well, we're not all dead yet" is hardly a criteria for success. And no, my bad opinion of him is not because "the media" - my bad opinion stems from reading his book "The art of the deal" about a decade ago (that was highly recommended by friends - they said it's great!) - and in there he came off, to me, as a corrupt scumbag. All his behavior since only reinforced this. It looks to me like the slow motion fall of an empire. And empires fall all the time, think about Great Britain, a bit over a hundred years ago they were the "the empire on which the sun never sets" - wonder if in another century people will look the same at the US.
    - war1025 6y ago
      You didn't ask why you would like him. You asked why I would like him. Obviously we disagree. What's it really matter?
- subsection1h 6y ago
  > How can you like him? war1025 is a religious white guy in Iowa who has argued that Proposition 8 in California wasn't a ban on same sex marriage. I'd actually be surprised if someone like this wasn't a Trump supporter.
  - war1025 6y ago
    Accurate. At least someone pays attention.
    - cmurf 6y ago
      Believing that scientists, teachers, economists, ethicists have been deceiving you all these years, while a POS reality TV star with decades of lying, bigotry, cheating people, dozens of credible accusations of sexual assault, cheating on his wives is somehow your beacon of truth and honesty. You are a bad person.
      - war1025 6y ago
        Believing that you know me based on a few sentences you read online is pretty naive, to be honest. Edit: My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have an actual conversation instead of just name calling.
- flukus 6y ago
  As another outsider looking in I've been shocked lately by the state governors. I thought Trump was aberration, but seeing how many mini trumps are running states shows that he is more of the norm than I ever realized. If I was in one of the saner parts of the country I'd be joining secessionist movements, they country just seems ungovernable as is.
  - war1025 6y ago
    Since Iowa is pretty high up on that list of "states that are run by mini-Trumps", I'll just throw in my two cents that for a state that is supposedly doing "everything wrong", life is basically normal here. We wear masks when going into stores now. That's literally the only major change to an otherwise normal life.

DFHippie 6y ago

You can fix their budget issues by removing the burden placed on them in 2006 that they fund their pension obligations for 75 years. No other entity, government or private, labors under this burden, providing for the retirement of employees who are not yet born. They were profitable for the six years before this law was passed, by Bush and the Republicans, and they would have been profitable for the last 6 years had it not been for this law.

RealityVoid 6y ago

Looking from outside the country: how? How can you like him? I know I will probably not start a good discussion by my question. But I hope to do so. What could someone like in this man? I struggle to find any redeeming qualities. Not from the US, but looking from the outside, it seems your country is collapsing on itself and people are cheering on this word little individual that shows little abilities. Just puzzling to me.

war1025 6y ago
> How can you like him? Consider that all major US media outlets are driven by ad-spend, which is in term driven by views. Views are driven by outrage. Trump is a great target for outrage. The media love to hate him. He loves to let them hate him. If you turn off the news, the country is in general humming along just fine. Stock market is doing great. No new wars. Finally doing something to address major trade imbalances with China. If you listen to the news, everyone and their mother is dying in the streets of coronavirus. In reality, roughly 1-3% of the population has even caught the virus. Deaths are way down from March/April. For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great.
- lovehashbrowns 6y ago
  COVID deaths are trending up, with 1,499 deaths reported for August 12. We're at 166,023 deaths total. Schools forced to open. Terrible quarterly GDP. COVID relief going to Trump's friends. A looming housing market collapse with evictions on the way. Massive unemployment. Probably a second quarantine in the fall due to the awful way that the response has been handled by the federal government. USPS fiasco by trump and his buddy having a conflict of interest with being a post master for the USPS and his investments + ties to XPO. trump's tweet that suggests postponing the election. trump and co's promotion of goya. trump's "It is what it is" response to 160,000 American deaths from COVID. trump's attacks on protesters and response with federal agents in Portland. I can literally go on and on. This is just what I had the effort to type out. How are these things pretty damn great? Just one or two of these should have a massive negative impact on any politician.
- RealityVoid 6y ago
  > For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great. Even _assuming_ everything is great, would it _really_ be his merit? I mean, everything that man did has been counter-productive for your country. He is a bumbling idiot. He really is. What merit does he have? I just can not see it. The fact that "well, we're not all dead yet" is hardly a criteria for success. And no, my bad opinion of him is not because "the media" - my bad opinion stems from reading his book "The art of the deal" about a decade ago (that was highly recommended by friends - they said it's great!) - and in there he came off, to me, as a corrupt scumbag. All his behavior since only reinforced this. It looks to me like the slow motion fall of an empire. And empires fall all the time, think about Great Britain, a bit over a hundred years ago they were the "the empire on which the sun never sets" - wonder if in another century people will look the same at the US.
  - war1025 6y ago
    You didn't ask why you would like him. You asked why I would like him. Obviously we disagree. What's it really matter?
subsection1h 6y ago
> How can you like him? war1025 is a religious white guy in Iowa who has argued that Proposition 8 in California wasn't a ban on same sex marriage. I'd actually be surprised if someone like this wasn't a Trump supporter.
- war1025 6y ago
  Accurate. At least someone pays attention.
  - cmurf 6y ago
    Believing that scientists, teachers, economists, ethicists have been deceiving you all these years, while a POS reality TV star with decades of lying, bigotry, cheating people, dozens of credible accusations of sexual assault, cheating on his wives is somehow your beacon of truth and honesty. You are a bad person.
    - war1025 6y ago
      Believing that you know me based on a few sentences you read online is pretty naive, to be honest. Edit: My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have an actual conversation instead of just name calling.
flukus 6y ago
As another outsider looking in I've been shocked lately by the state governors. I thought Trump was aberration, but seeing how many mini trumps are running states shows that he is more of the norm than I ever realized. If I was in one of the saner parts of the country I'd be joining secessionist movements, they country just seems ungovernable as is.
- war1025 6y ago
  Since Iowa is pretty high up on that list of "states that are run by mini-Trumps", I'll just throw in my two cents that for a state that is supposedly doing "everything wrong", life is basically normal here. We wear masks when going into stores now. That's literally the only major change to an otherwise normal life.