you forget that the Post office is not included in the budget. It is an independent entity. You want the post office to save money, how about removing some of the onerous requirements imposed on it by congress, such as having to fully fund all pensions that no business is required to do so.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You wouldn't do that here. :P > > So in your mind the government is perfect and no cuts anywhere are needed? > Remember Obama was going to use a scalpel and Romney was going to fire Big > Bird? Big Bird got another $400 million during the recent shutdown. How > about $93 - 250 million on that website that doesn't work for starters. Now > they will throw how many more $$$ at it? How about corn subsidies or most > farm subsidies for that matter. How about stopping Saturday mail delivery, > and raising retirement age for SS? Most important, repeal Obamacare. We > can't afford it. > > But if you google spending cuts you get more ideas: > http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/plan-to-cut-federal-spending > > And then there's this: > And then there's this: > > The Tea Party's top 10 preferred cuts: > 1. Repeal Obamacare (93%) > 2. Reduce duplicative purchases of Pentagon Supplies (90%) > 3. Eliminate Department of Education (81%) > 4. Privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (81%) > 5. Reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels (76%) > 6. Block grant Medicaid (74%) > 7. End ethanol tax credits (71%) > 8. Sell needless federal buildings (71%) > 9. Eliminate HUD (70%) > 10. Reduce Medicare teaching subsidies (68%) > > Speaking to selling government buildings, Sen Feinstein's hubby is raking > in $millions selling post offices. > > . > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Each time someone rails about spending cuts, I send them a link to the > > budget page, and ask them exactly what they want to cut. I have yet to > get > > a response that recommends any specific cuts - just a lot of sound and > fury > > about whatever the latest media buzzword is. > > > > The average voter is massively ignorant of the reality of government > > spending. I've even had someone suggest that the National Park Service > and > > NPR receive more money than the Defense Department. Also, there is a > > constant meme on Facebook that suggests that all defense employees could > be > > pay by cutting the salaries of the President and Congress. They > obviously > > have no sense of the magnitude of cost of a standing army. > > > > I'm all for less spending, but for someone to wave the arms and yell "cut > > spending" or "kill Obamacare" without any plan or clue was to what that > > involves is just spin and nonsense. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
