Replies to post #174501 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[tinner]

It wasn't broke until...............Yogi and your PIMPS took them down were they? Pure BS!


The new law forced the postal service to come up with about $5.5 billion a year for the ten years following the bill's passage. In 2006, before those payments kicked in, the USPS generated a small profit. Not surprisingly, the USPS is now basically broke.

The 2006 law also bars the Postal Service from offering "nonpostal services," which means the USPS can't, say, open up a bank, or an internet cafe, or come up with any new entrepreneurial ideas to generate new income, as postal services do in other countries.

The transparent purpose of this law, which was pushed heavily by industry lobbyists, was to break a public sector union and privatize the mail industry. Before the 2006 act, the postal service did one thing, did it well, and, minus the need to generate profits and bonuses for executives, did it cheaply. It paid for itself and was not a burden to taxpayers.

[StephanieVanbryce]

1. the smartest people in Gov realized they could not compete so private Spacex will supply Space Station....

Well, You're WRONG. The smartest guy in the government is President Obama .. and he financed SpaceX. Damn ....your mind
has gotten soft from reading all government hater websites ........smarten UP!

SpaceX has now proved that a private company, albeit funded with government money, can both launch a space craft
and land one safely. If it can prove that it can do so consistently, a new age of commercial space travel will be born.

http://voices.yahoo.com/spacexs-dragon-splashes-down-7364094.html

Thank President Obama.

[StephanieVanbryce]

2. the smartest people in Gov realized they could not compete so private Spacex will supply Space Station..

........so sorry ..the Smartest GUY in the government GAVE them the dollars AND the opportunity....SNIPS

President Obama

Obama said he was "100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future." He outlined plans for federal spending to bring more private companies into space exploration following the soon-to-end space shuttle program.

He said his administration would support continued manned exploration of space "not just with dollars," but with clear aims and a larger purpose."

The Obama space plan relies on private companies to fly to the space station, giving them almost $6 billion to build their own rockets and ships. It also extends the space station's life by five years and puts billions into research to eventually develop new government rocket ships for future missions to a nearby asteroid, to the moon, to Martian moons or other points in space. Those stops would be stepping stones on an eventual mission to Mars itself. [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36563152/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/obama-plans-see-landing-mars/#.T5sYQsV1dOY ]

So you see, AND I'll REPEAT! The smartest GUY in GOVERNMENT, President Obama ..FINANCED SpaceX.

[F6]