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Amazon Opposes Plan To End Saturday Mail Delivery
theodp writes "Online retailer giant Amazon.com has come out against a US Postal Service proposal to end Saturday service, part of efforts to address the USPS budget deficit. 'Amazon's customers have come to appreciate and expect Saturday delivery,' explained Amazon VP Paul Misener. 'If the five-day delivery proposal is not withdrawn,' he added, 'we ask that Congress ensure that Saturday delivery be maintained.' In the past, Amazon has argued that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence." The article adds, "Interestingly, online DVD service Netflix is backing the plan to end Saturday mail delivery, arguing that a 'well functioning' Postal Service is more important than 'maintaining current delivery frequency.'"
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When God goes to war, He drops big bangs.
It is funny, Amazon did actually propose this as a way to cut spending and now they are against it.
It's the entire dichotomy of the brains:
Q. American people, do you want to reduce the deficit?
A. Sure, we want to reduce the deficit, do it!
Q. American people, should we cut spending to do that?
A. Sure, cut spending, do it!
Q. American people, what should we cut out of the spending?
A. NOOOOTHING!!!!!
It's funny if it weren't so tragic. Deficit needs to be cut and debts needs to be reduced and repaid. But it will not be done, instead the country will be bankrupted and the USD will be destroyed via hyper-inflation. Same thing can happen to Euro, we'll see.
The government is always running as a huge pyramid scheme, the people who came in early, they paid the least into social security in absolute terms and in proportion to their salaries, and those people got to enjoy really hugely from the rest paying for them. People who came in late are facing much greater payments into the system in both, absolute and relative terms and will probably get very very little back out of the system and they will be forced to wait longer.
After all, people are living longer and the government didn't imagine that could happen. -that's senator Alan Simpson saying exactly that.
So you see, government runs pyramid schemes EVEN if the money that is paid actually can be turned around to make profit, then the government just takes it out of that pot and uses it for whatever and then later says: tough shit.
This is of-course ludicrous, and a very good reason to privatize the Social Security so that the government couldn't do this to that pot, turn it into INSURANCE instead, but something that is not allowed to gamble with money. Something that can make money and not be used for anything other than its original purpose.
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Now, it seems that my post is of-topic, but it isn't, sometimes it is necessary to provide a backdrop for a comment, something of a context.
Amazon wants something for nothing, it built a business based on Government Subsidies! Think about it for a moment. Government subsidizes the US post office, the Government makes it illegal for private companies to compete with the post office in certain ways, for example it is illegal for anybody to compete with the USPS in delivering the First Class Mail. So government created a monopoly, gives it subsidies and then some businesses figure out how to use these monopolies to their advantage. Then the businesses (Amazon in this case), decide that they don't want to carry some of the tax burden in certain states and they propose cuts in subsidies to the monopoly that helped them to become the business that it is. Then, when these cuts are proposed, Amazon all of a sudden is completely against them, because those cuts would eat into Amazon's profits just as well!
This entire situation is possible because Government got into economy, set up monopolies and then helped certain parasitic businesses that take advantage of the system to succeed. Then, because the government is still failing in economy (obviously), it ends up cutting the services and ends up hurting the bottom line of the business that rely on those monopolies to do what they do.
And the funny (from the outside) thing is how this business behaves itself, just like the rest of the American people:
Q. Amazon, can you pay some taxes here?
A. No way, we don't want to operate this way.
Q. Amazon, what should be we do about the spending problem and the deficit?
A. Cut your services.
Q. Amazon, we are going to cut the services, happy?
A. NOOOOOO!
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The entire problem is that people and businesses want something for nothing. The governments figured this out and they run things accordingly and it helps them with elections/reelections/basically with their positions
You can't handle the truth.