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the_dawggie wrote:
> On Oct 3, 10:07 am, CyberDroog <CyberDr...@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:54:14 +0200, Thomas Dehn
>> <thomas-use...@arcor.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> CyberDroog wrote:
>> 
>>>> So then you agree that private industry could do better with the
>>>> mail? 
>> 
>>> It looks like a wash, the private industry
>>> is neither better nor worse with the mail.
>> 
>>> In Germany, the private industry, which is
>>> allowed to compete, is worse than German Post.
>>> They take longer to ship, and they are
>>> less reliable, and only marginally cheaper.
>> 
>> Maybe they are gassing and burning all packages that look Jewish.
>> 
>>> In the US, the USPS is so horrible that it is
>>> hard to imagine a private business being
>>> even worse.
>> 
>> But they are great at running at a loss, as most government programs
>> are. 
>> 
>>>> The government should do those tasks that the constitution allows
>>>> it to do. The USPS is one of those, though there is no reason it
>>>> needs to be a monopoly.
>> 
>>> The US Constitution is more than 200 years old.
>>> It could use an update on what the government is
>>> allowed to do, and on what it isn't.
>> 
>> People are free to offer new amendments if they feel they can get
>> 2/3rd's of the states to ratify them. A constitution that is too
>> easy to change is also subject to the reckless whims of the people
>> who are all too willing to give up liberty if they become nervous.
>> 
>>>> So the main difference between you and me is that you are
>>>> vehemently anti-individualist.
>> 
>>> You, as an individual, cannot keep pollution away from
>>> a river, or a lake. The river is either dirty and polluted, or it
>>> isn't, but as an individual you are powerless to change that.
>>> Yet it affects your life if you live close to that river.
>> 
>> So you sue the polluters if need be.
>> 
>> --
>> When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
>> 
>> - Lenny Bruce
> 
> Pity that, there is a quiz show here where they put their skills
> against an adult (one time a polly in charge of education).
> 
>  They win. Pity everything fucks up when getting older. Same
>  with anything really.