What the right-wing followers of the Koch Brothers of God are trying to do is take over the Government after they force our President to keep making abnormal emergency cuts in order to keep our government open, and, allow the debt ceiling to be raised. This is exactly how a company in Default is taken over in a hostile way. This is what the Republican Koch Followers did to the U.S. Post Office. They made it so the PO could not pay its bills so their cronies can come in an run it as a privatized company – like Staples. The Republican Church of the Wealthy do not want any Government competition. This is why I have been a champion for the Post Office, I taking on the identity of Uncle Samaclaus. That’s him in front of a FOR SALE sign planted on the grounds of Eugene’s Post Office.
Consider the plan to use trucks to clog our freeways in order to show that our President is powerless to keep our Government running. The right-wing took our FREE WAYS HOSTAGE just like they did the Post Office. This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Article 1 of the Constitution calls for a Post Office where we may mail our opinions to others, especially newspapers which brought about the War of Independence. By closing our Democracy, the Republicans have hindered the Voice of the People.
Jon Presco
The modern Post Office originated in 1792 as the Post Office Department (USPOD). It was based on the Constitutional authority empowering Congress “To establish post offices and post roads”. The new law provided for a greatly expanded postal network, and served editors by charging newspapers an extremely low rate. The law guaranteed the sanctity of personal correspondence, and provided the entire nation with low-cost access to information on public affairs, while establishing a right to personal privacy.
Takeovers remain the most controversial corporate governance mechanism. According to pro-takeover commentators, takeovers are generally beneficial for corporate governance. Takeovers can displace poorly performing managers and facilitate corporate restructuring. From this perspective, regulation should encourage takeovers. On the opposite side of the debate, those who oppose hostile takeovers argue that they can disrupt well-functioning companies and encourage short-termism. From this point of view, policies that hamper takeovers are favored.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2013/05/22/the-case-for-an-unbiased-takeover-law/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/occupy-eugene-got-it-all-wrong/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/trading-posts-2/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/moral-rights-art-preservation-law/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/new-deal-post-office-for-sale/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
House Republicans were told by Speaker John Boehner Saturday morning that negotiations between the House GOP and President Obama have ended, with Obama’s rejection Friday of the House’s latest offer.
Postal Service Bankrupt Shows Why USPS Must Be Privatized
Maddy Matthews
Postal Service Bankrupt Shows Why USPS Must Be Privatized
The United States Postal Service’s anticipated default tonight shows that both Congress and Americans are on the mailman’s side.
USPS will default at midnight because it cannot pay $5.5 billion to retiree health benefits. Back in 2006, the Republican-dominated Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which mandated the USPS to “prefund all of its retirees’ health benefits” for the next 75 years. Naturally, they couldn’t afford to meet the requirement, and now find themselves in default six years later.
Despite the agency’s insistence that this default “will have no material effect on the operations of the Postal Service,” the impact won’t go unnoticed. A first-time default will crack a few bones of the service’s infrastructure, and a foreseeable second default in September could destroy it.
Yet both of these defaults hold good news: now that the skeleton of the postal service is broken, Americans will truly realize that change—on a radical level—needs to occur. Even if Congress passed a bill that was clearly unattainable, they did it with honorable intentions. This default needed to happen a decade ago. Now more than ever, it needs to happen so we can find a new pathway out.
Some call the postal service’s foundation “old-fashioned,” but I think a more suitable term is archaic. The underpinning is based on a government-induced monopoly, a money-losing flat rate service, and a hope that Americans use snail mail instead of email. The simple reality? Delivering letters to rural places for the same 44-cent rate as delivering them to populated urban areas isn’t lucrative. Reforms have only lead to more junk mail. According to Bloomsberg, “the USPS needs three pieces of junk mail to replace the profit of a vanished stamp-bearing letter.” Additionally, the Internet has stolen the top money-makers from the USPS: Christmas cards and college acceptance/rejection letters. This spring, my mailman won’t get the satisfaction of delivering any rejection letters to my door! My Gmail account, however, will.
The only way out is to completely reconstruct the whole “one size fits all” plan. Privatization is inevitable.
Although many oppose privatizing because it could curtail unions, it has worked in socialist countries like Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The European Union “prodded members to give up their monopolies and compete with one another,” and the result has been glorious compared to our system.
Furthermore, the postal service would not be obliterated if we privatize it. More mail delivery services mean more job opportunities, more efficiency and more freedom. That little post office around the corner might be closed, but it doesn’t mean Americans will completely forget or demolish the legacy of the USPS. Privatizing will force the postal services to be rejuvenated, modernized, and ready to compete in the 21st century.
In a perfect world, Ben Franklin would have wanted us to keep the USPS alive. But this is far from a utopia. Our economy is already suffering, and privatizing mail is the only answer.
At a closed door meeting in the basement of the Capitol, Boehner urged members to hold firm, several said, even as Senate Republicans work to negotiate their own proposal to end the impasse.
Can the U.S. avoid default?
Glenn Kessler OCT 11
Sen. Rand Paul says the U.S. doesn’t have to default if it breaches the debt ceiling. Is that possible?
House members expressed anxiety about the Senate talks. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) said House leaders were only briefed on a proposal being circulated by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Saturday morning and were opposed to it. He said the reasons for opposition were too many to enumerate.
Admitting it’s not optimal, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Saturday that “all eyes are now on the Senate” this morning as the House waits to see how the upper chamber votes on a bill to fund the government.
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) sounded a frustrated note as he left a GOP conference meeting.
“The president rejected our deal,” Labrador said.
“It’s all good. It’s now up to the Senate republicans to stand up,” the Idaho republican added.
Briefing reporters Friday after markets closed for the week, White House press secretary Jay Carney praised a “new willingness” among Republicans to end the government shutdown — now in its 12th day — and to acknowledge that default on the national debt “would be catastrophically damaging.”
But with the Treasury Department due to exhaust its borrowing authority in just six days, Carney said the president would not agree to go through another round of economy-rattling talks in six weeks, just before the Christmas shopping season.
“It at least looks like there’s the possibility of making some progress here,” Carney said. But “the president’s view is that we have to remove these sort of demands for leverage, using essentially the American people and the economy.”
Before Carney spoke, Obama telephoned Boehner (R-Ohio) and the two men agreed to keep talking, aides said. Afterward, GOP senators marched into Boehner’s office and counseled him to adopt an approach they had presented to Obama earlier in the day, during their own meeting at the White House.
With Republicans getting battered in public opinion polls over the shutdown, Senate GOP leaders urged Boehner to join them in supporting a single, big-bang measure that would open the government and raise the debt limit in one fell swoop.
“I laid out some of those ideas, and the question is, can the House find a center of gravity to open the government up around those ideas,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said after exiting the speaker’s office with Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). The two men, former House members, have been close friends with Boehner for almost 20 years.
Details were still fluid late Friday, but the latest 23-page draft of the emerging measure would immediately end the shutdown and fund federal agencies for six months at current spending levels. It would maintain the deep automatic cuts known as the sequester but give agency officials flexibility to decide where the cuts should fall.
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