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Obama uses money losing U.S. Post Office as example? Oops!
Examiner.com ^ | August 12, 2009 | Martha

Posted on 08/12/2009 10:18:27 AM PDT by usalady

Speaking to a town hall of mostly ObamaCare supporters on August 11, 2009, the President compared the money-losing U.S. Post Office as an example of how a government-run program can compete with private enterprise. Oops!

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: actedstupidly; bho44; bhotownhalls; democrats; dolt; gaffe; governmentprograms; healthcarereform; noteleprompter; obama; obamacare; postal; postoffice
According to Postmaster General John Potter the Post Office has lost $4.7 billion so far this year and expects it to be $7 billion in the red by the end of the fiscal year because of the recession and the movement of letters and bills to e-mail.
1 posted on 08/12/2009 10:18:27 AM PDT by usalady
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To: usalady

I have this idea....taxing the guys who make over $250k a year and make them pay for the failing post offices in America. It would be a surcharge on their taxes. Then I’d allow everyone to just mail anything they wanted....for free.


2 posted on 08/12/2009 10:21:40 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: usalady
So is this what Obama is promising?

3 posted on 08/12/2009 10:23:53 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: usalady
I can't believe he'd say anything so asinine... so ignorant. UPS and FedEx? In case the President didn't notice, UPS and FedEx deliver high-priority packages and parcels, but they do not deliver regular first-class mail. And why not? Because they are forbidden by law to do so. The law gives the United States Postal Service a monopoly in the delivery of most mail, and private business may not compete.

How is the President of the United States ignorant of this? How are his handlers?

4 posted on 08/12/2009 10:25:06 AM PDT by Politicalities
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To: usalady

Someone loose their teleprompter?


5 posted on 08/12/2009 10:25:15 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: usalady

The sad thing is that the Post Office COULD be a profit-turning organization.


6 posted on 08/12/2009 10:26:08 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: usalady

Obama’s an idiot.

If Palin had said something so stupid the media would be all over her for weeks.


7 posted on 08/12/2009 10:26:58 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Countless thousands of our ancestors died to give us the freedoms we have today. Stay involved!)
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To: usalady

But wait! There’s a video!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/11/obama_the_post_office_is_always_having_problems.html

Is he really this dumb, or did the wireless device in his ear make him say it?


8 posted on 08/12/2009 10:31:40 AM PDT by two23 (czars are for commies)
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To: usalady

Ok, to be fair, he was using the analogy to show that there would be private sector competition to the boondoggle he is throwing out there, because the government plan will have problems inherent to government run plans.

That said, he forgot to mention that his plan makes it so that employers in the private sector will find it financially beneficial to get rid of their Employee Health Care. Through taxation, increased labor costs, etc, employers one by one will start dropping plans, until the government plan is the only one left. A small businessman will find his bottom line effected less by paying the fine for NOT providing a health care plan than jumping through all the hoops and paying all the taxes to provide one.

Not matter what he says, he has always been for a single payer government run system. Obama said it back in what 2003, when running for Congress, that it would take 10-15-20 years to get rid of the private health care market. He, along with his cronies in Congress know EXACTLY what is going to happen.

His intellectual dishonesty is breath taking at times.


9 posted on 08/12/2009 10:31:43 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: usalady

The best reason not to support 0bamacare came from the President's own mouth.

10 posted on 08/12/2009 10:32:14 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: usalady

It is stupid because private sector business cannot survive if they do not make money (profit) but government run entities don’t have to make money—in fact they are allowed to continue forever losing money.
(Amtrack, Post Office etc)
How can a government business that has unlimited funds and doesn’t have to earn a penny, create fair competition with similar private sector business?
Just F.O.S.


11 posted on 08/12/2009 10:40:05 AM PDT by two23 (czars are for commies)
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To: usalady

I bet this was a double face palm moment for our buddy Rahm. Now that’s a video I’d love to see.


12 posted on 08/12/2009 10:43:39 AM PDT by Queen of Excelsior
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To: pepsionice
"I have this idea...."

Yes, but you wouldn't let old people mail stuff or people with dementia or the very young or disabled. They would only be able to mail based on their usefulness to society.

13 posted on 08/12/2009 11:01:14 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: usalady

I’m surprised that line didn’t kill support for ObamaCare outright.


14 posted on 08/12/2009 11:23:09 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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To: two23
Is he really this dumb

Rather starling coming from someone who, as a candidate, claimed to have taught constitutional law as professor. This and various other utterances expose that lie.

Comparing the operation of a constitutionally mandated function like the United States Post Office with the operation of American Businesses is nothing short of ignorant. Especially when you realize the actual topic is an unconstitutional health care bill.

For the uninitiated, what makes health care reform unconstitutional is the fact that the Constitution does not provide the herein granted power required for Congress to generate such legislation.

The proper method for Congress to write such legislation would be to add the power to do so by amending the Constitution.

15 posted on 08/12/2009 12:30:43 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: usalady

16 posted on 08/12/2009 12:40:51 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: MosesKnows
"the fact that the Constitution does not provide the herein granted power required for Congress to generate such legislation."

Thank you for the reply MosesKnows, would it be possible that if this administration were to get this -unconstitutional- bill to pass (without an amendment) that charges would be brought against the offender(s)?

17 posted on 08/12/2009 1:13:09 PM PDT by two23 (czars are for commies)
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that charges would be brought against the offender(s)?

Doubtful. The socialist liberals are striving mightily for America to abandon the Republic and the rule of law and become a Democracy, which the rule of the majority. In a Democracy, the majority can ignore the law.

18 posted on 08/12/2009 3:36:08 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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