wildfires and politics
POSTED BY: mal4prez
UPDATED: Sunday, August 9, 2026 14:08
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Pizmo
I'm only too happy to discuss things reasonably. But when you throw random punches - government bad! profit motive the one and only good! - expect them back.
FWIW what ** I ** find really funny is when you post things and then post that you NEVER posted them! Aside from the fact that when you use a word like 'never' you out yourself on the hook for a very long time, I actually didn't have to go very far back to find those things you 'never' posted.
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Pizmo
I'm only too happy to discuss things reasonably. But when you throw random punches - government bad! profit motive the one and only good! - expect them back.
You're doing it again. I said "I do think competition is a great way to spur innovation," not, "profit motive the one and only good!" Do you see the difference?
I do think Government pretty bad - isn't that what your signature says?
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
Kiki, we're just never going to get along.
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Looking at the US Post Office it's easy to imagine that if some of today's smartest and hungriest entrepreneurs were put in charge how much better and more profitable it could be run.
Because apparently having people collectively provide for themselves via government is bad, and the only good that can be scraped from it is to dangle profit in front of a private business.
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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I think some of the for profit folks would say it's even worse if it's a gov employee running things because they don't have profit motive to move things along - no carrot, all stick.
B/c the only carrot worth mentioning here is profit.
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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I see that there a serious problems with some parts of government, especially the parts that would feed us to corporations. The answer is to MAKE GOVERNMENT WORK FOR US by the power of the vote - to vote and keep voting till we get that government.
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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Oh, btw, I don't really expect you to reply with an admission that you actually did post those things you 'never' posted. But enough about you.
For anyone not you who can ask some really basic questions about the wonders of private enterprise, here are a couple of questions:
1) There is absolutely nothing to forbid FedEx or UPS from delivering documents. They do it all the time. Do you think they could deliver documents for under a dollar each and show the PO how it's done? And if they can do it better and tap into that market, why haven't they?
2) If private enterprise is so good at figuring out how to do things better, why is it that people can't afford health insurance and have to depend on Medicare?
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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Quote:Good question, though I don't know the particulars. Are they really free to post letters, or is there a twisted sort of "gentlemen's" agreement. I could see the discussion happening, where FedEx chatted about developing the letter developing system, but it'd be known that the PO does that job already. Don't even bother building the system.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
1) There is absolutely nothing to forbid FedEx or UPS from delivering documents. They do it all the time. Do you think they could deliver documents for under a dollar each and show the PO how it's done? And if they can do it better and tap into that market, why haven't they?
But I don't know. Maybe these companies carried out some kind of feasibility study, about cost and possible profit of setting up a letter-delivery system. I'd like to see that.
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2) If private enterprise is so good at figuring out how to do things better, why is it that people can't afford health insurance and have to depend on Medicare?
And why hasn't the corporat-ization of American over the past two decades not led to roaring success for anyone but the 1%? Hmm....
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"Are they really free to post letters ..."
They can't deliver them to a mail box marked US Mail. Any other delivery point is OK. As for feasibility studies, I've read that there was one around but haven’t been able to track it down. A lot of people think it's out there somewhere, but no one has been able to link it.
My sense is that if either FedEx or UPS could compete and make a profit, they would. There's nothing stopping them.
There is something we'd lose with either company though, and that is that the USPS is "... legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality", no matter how remote, no matter how far. WIKI You definitely wouldn't get that with either FedEx or UPS b/c you don't get that now.
SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.
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