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Sunday, March 11, 2012

State-Sponsored Communists In My Mailbox

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
---Thomas Edison


The Arconians decided to add 14 more hours to my 12 hour work week this week, so I guess I won't have to shag it at Labor Ready for a while.

My roommate Creepy was sulking today when he found out I get a 15% employee discount over at the Arco even when I'm not working there and free drinks while I am. It's just not fair, you see, that I should get something he doesn't get. It's really upset him.

What? Was he raised by communists, socialists or Democrats or somethin'?

Speaking of communists, that fine Irish actor, the Postmaster Dufus, is on TV again saying with a straight clown face that the taxpayers shouldn't bear the burden of safe mail, but that the government should pay for it. Where does that clown think the government gets its money from? Bake sales?

Then he clarifies his Newspeak, saying the postal customers (junk mailers) shouldn't foot the bill, the taxpayers should. Oh, now I get it. He's trying to protect the profits of the junkmailers by adding a post office tax on working people's paychecks.

Five billion dollars, please. Screw him. Triple the price of stamps if that's what it takes. Don't take it out of my Labor Ready paycheck. If the U.S. Post Office can't compete with Fedex, let them go bankrupt like capitalism dictates. Let's see how long that Postmaster lasts in a REAL job, the #$%& corporate welfare bum.

In case you didn't know, the "patriotic" U.S. airlines have bumped so much U.S. mail off their planes in favor of more profitable cargo that the U.S. Postal service subcontracts its airmail to Fedex anyway. Let's cut out the middleman (the frikkin' U.S. Post Office). It's an anachronistic institution that we should have dismantled years ago.

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3 comments:

  1. Great post!  I look forward to reading more of your writing in the future.

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  2. I wish I had good friends in person. I have a few online that are good, but I'm still not very close to anyone.

    I'm still trying to get the dictator to hand over the brain. Am I communist? I don't know. I really wasn't a bum before they destroyed my brain, but after, yeah. It's hard for me to comprehend what you're saying, but I think I like it. I think it's almost worse when people get money for a job horribly done than straight up welfare. At least with the latter, we know we're pathetic.

    I make people mad all of the time because I get a check that they don't. They perceive it as a handout, and I guess it is, but they destroyed me... those damn psychotronic bastards! I don't think it's fancy mind control so much as a TBI that leaves people blank, as that's what a TBI does. They could have just taken a club to my head and it would have done the same thing.

    I don't think getting something that someone else doesn't is the glory of capitalism so much as luck ,which is the fruit of life.

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