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Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com)
President Trump personally urged the leader of the U.S. Postal Service to double the rates the agency charges Amazon and other firms for delivery packages in several private conversations in 2017 and 2018, The Washington Post reported Friday (alternative source). From the report: Postmaster General Megan Brennan has so far resisted Trump's demand, explaining in multiple conversations occurring this year and last that these arrangements are bound by contracts and must be reviewed by a regulatory commission, the three people said. She has told the president that the Amazon relationship is beneficial for the Postal Service and gave him a set of slides that showed the variety of companies, in addition to Amazon, that also partner for deliveries.
Despite these presentations, Trump has continued to level criticism at Amazon. And last month, his critiques culminated in the signing of an executive order mandating a government review of the financially strapped Postal Service that could lead to major changes in the way it charges Amazon and others for package delivery. Few U.S. companies have drawn Trump's ire as much as Amazon, which has rapidly grown to be the second-largest U.S. company in terms of market capitalization. For more than three years, Trump has fumed publicly and privately about the giant commerce and services company and its founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, who is also the owner of The Washington Post.
Despite these presentations, Trump has continued to level criticism at Amazon. And last month, his critiques culminated in the signing of an executive order mandating a government review of the financially strapped Postal Service that could lead to major changes in the way it charges Amazon and others for package delivery. Few U.S. companies have drawn Trump's ire as much as Amazon, which has rapidly grown to be the second-largest U.S. company in terms of market capitalization. For more than three years, Trump has fumed publicly and privately about the giant commerce and services company and its founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, who is also the owner of The Washington Post.
Won't that just push Amazon to set up their own private courier services? Not that I feel sympathy for either side of this fight.
I am sorry the company CEO is hurting the Presidents fragile Ego. But shouldn't he be Mr. Business man? Who looks at the big picture and works to make profitable deals no matter what your personal feelings are to the other person? Just as long as Amazon and like companies are not being charged at a loss at such bulk rates this is money to the USPS system, that isn't going to its competitors of FedEx and UPS. Doubling the Rates will not hurt Amazon that much, It will just hurt the USPS because Amazon will just move to the next cheapest shipping method.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
He'll put his personal touch into 6x9 feet of the luxurious Trump Wing at Leavenworth Downs. Treason is not too strong a word.
You'd think that as a self-professed "businessman", Trump would understand how demand curves work -- if you double the price of a product, demand decreases, if other suppliers (UPS, Fedex, Ontrac, Amazon's own service, etc) can deliver for less, then the postoffice loses out on income for a business that costs very little to provide when they are already sending workers out to every address.
Though I'd be happy to see Amazon stop using the USPS -- they are the least reliable of all of the other services Amazon uses, packages sometimes show up days after they were marked "delivered", or don't show up at all. I fairly often get packages meant for neighbors, I assume this is the source of the delayed packages.
Fedex and UPS are the best, packages show up on time. Amazon's own delivery service has been ok, but seem to have a high number of rescheduled deliveries when they've run out of time to deliver. Maybe I'm on the end of the route.
Congrats, USA. You have elected a petulant child to run the executive branch.
Donald is going to prison, the question is how deep is Pence's dick in the dirty business of Trump's backside deals?
The USPS is bringing in tons of money through their deals with companies like Amazon. They're not somehow getting screwed. Like in a lot of cases, if you're going to buy a large amount of a product or service, you can generally negotiate to get it at a lower bulk rate. That's not somehow unusual.
It's essentially guaranteed business for USPS. If they double the rate, I'm sure FedEx, UPS, etc., will be quite happy to carry Amazon's packages instead, and the USPS will wind up being the one that loses.
But, what's that matter when you've got an ego to feed? This never was about postal rates. This is about Trump not liking Jeff Bezos, because the Washington Post has the gall to call people's attention to it when Trump says something stupid.
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Stopped? USPS is still honoring their contract that still makes them money.
This is NOT news.
Wake me up when he does something not boneheaded.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Exactly how insane are you? Amazon have a net profit margin of 3.19% that is far far from "the most profitable company on the earth". E.g Microsoft have 23.57%
They're not subsidizing Amazon. They were turning a mild profit until they were forced to pre-pay pensions by law instead of acting like any other government or private entity.
Did you miss the part where the postmaster general said that these arrangements are beneficial to the post office?
Is there any data to back up your claim that they're losing money on the deal?
It's less about "fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry" and more about understanding how businesses and demand curves work. It's not Amazon that needs protection from Trump here but the USPS which are about to be forced to loose major contracts if Trump will have his way.
The whole issue here is that the USPS is subsidizing Amazon delivery, by charging rates lower than what it actually costs to ship things. Other mail fees are subsidizing Amazon, how is that right???
That is a lie.
USPS financial report
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This story about the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon/Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, is case-in-point as to why he never was Presidential material, why he is not a good President now, and why he never will be a good President, ever: Donald Trump is incapable of de-coupling his ego from his personality when it comes to his duty as President of the United States. The lies, the staffing choices based on personal loyalty and not personal integrity and aptitude, the grandstanding (attention whoring, basically), the temper-tantrums when he doesn't get his way, and decision-making based on personal grudges and personal vendettas (as is the case here specifically) are all anyone with two eyes and a functioning brain need to see that he is not now and won't ever be someone who should have been allowed to be elected in the first place. Never mind that he may well be at least as crooked as Tricky Dick or not (we may never really know, but boy oh boy does it look likely), or that he's flat-out incompetent politically (vis-a-vis Israel/Jerusalem), what we've seen since January 2017 is so far as I and so many others are concerned more than enough evidence that Donald J. Trump as POTUS was one of the worst electoral mistakes in the history of the United States, one that this country will spend decades living down with the rest of the world.
They were forced to make pension payments:
1. Because they were chronically under-funding their pension system to balance the books, forcing the federal government to step in and cover their losses
2. In a manner that ALL public and private agencies should handle their pensions - figure out how much they are going to have to pay out over the next 50-70 years, and put away enough money to cover it
The USPS has publish information multiple times debunking this statement.
The primary reason that the USPS makes a profit on Amazon even though the indivitual package price is very low is that Amazon fills the shipment.
An analogy would be a standby ticket. They need to charge passengers $200 for the flight but there are often empty seats so charging someone $50 for those IS profitable because those were unsold tickets and the new passenger costs only a little bit extra.
The USPS has obligations for certain delivery times mandated by congress, so they have a ton of empty space on the airplane or freight truck. Unlike the airlines that schedule fewer flights when a route is slow, the USPS still has to drive it every single day.
USPS items get loaded first, then other shippers like Amazon. If the truck fills, Amazon waits for the next truck but that's such a rare occurrence that it isn't a concern for Amazon.
.... You clearly don't have a head for finances. I suggest you check shipping rates for local delivery as that's basically what the PO is doing, and always has been doing. They're getting more light parcels to deliver on their normal routes with only a moderate extra burden, but profit is far higher. Amazon uses DHL, Fedex, and UPS to deliver to the PO with their big expensive cargo liners, the post office is the last leg in delivery and they don't rush, they do it on their own normal schedule. DHL and the like however are pressured to deliver it early enough so that it will get to you on a normal PO route...
Yes, it's a complaint - no one else needs to pre-fund pension plans. Your second sentence about them going broke doesn't make sense.
...then he should get the states to increase their diesel taxes and weight-mile taxes on trucks. But this would harm the oil industry which pays big money to politicians and so it will never happen.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
They don't provide the same quality of service as the other carriers though, they are cheaper and thats great and on the volume that Amazon needs they are probably a good option (hence the reason Amazon uses them) but if they cost as much as Fedex, but loose more packages then nobody is ever going to use them.
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It's fitting that the story comes from the Washington Post since this has nothing to do with Amazon and EVERYTHING to do with the smear job WAPO has been doing to Trump.
So you are claiming that a story about how Trump is pushing the Postmaster General to significantly increase the rates it charges Amazon... has nothing to do with Amazon? Are you saying Trump did not, in fact, press for Amazon's postal rates to increase? Because the Postmaster General has specifically and rather publicly stated why she cannot do that - which would be an odd and random thing for her to say if Trump hadn't asked for it.
How about a similar story from Fox News? Is this one a smear job too? Did Bezos buy Fox News? http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
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So how has Amazon hurt trump in teh past? I have heard mention that it hurts him by de-valuing brick-and-mortar retail space that he is heavily invested in.
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Bills of attainder are forbidden by the US Constitution. Federal regulations have the force of law, so no Donny, you can't fuck around with Amazon's contract with the USPS.
Really, I understand he's not a lawyer, but he took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, a document with which he is manifestly completely unfamiliar. I think there's a case to be made that he can be forced to at least read it once. While wearing his glasses that he refuses to wear in public, which is why he appears to be illiterate in public settings.
I see things like this and imagine if he was able to actually just do what he wants, unencumbered by the little checks and balances we have left.
From just purely the words out of his mouth I could see us nearing third world status in a decade or two if he was left to his own devices. And I say that with not a bit of hyperbole.
They are being forced to pre-fund pension plans FAR in advance of their obligation. That is singularly different than ANY other company or entity. It is literally starving them of resources. They can't adequately keep their facilities updated, clean, or expand services. The Post Office is one of the few things specifically mentioned in the Constitution as a service the Government is expected to provide.
If it were not for companies like Amazon and others, the Post Office would have gone bankrupt.
Despite your disingenuous "heartening" comment, actually most of us want EVERYONE to succeed,including our political rivals, heck, even the "evil" large business owners, as long as they play the game by the rules, and don't SCREW the people or the environment to make their profits.
Of course, there are exceptions and outliers on either side of the aisle, and there are the psychopathic types that just want to see the world burn, but for the most part, most of us want everybody to succeed in life. As long as it's not at someone else's expense.
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Postmaster General Megan Brennan has so far resisted Trump's demand, explaining in multiple conversations occurring this year and last that these arrangements are bound by contracts and must be reviewed by a regulatory commission, the three people said.
Yet another example of Trump encouraging illegal activities.
Maybe it IS a good deal for the post office. But let's see that from someone without skin in the game.
You mean like the Post Master General?
You are a special kind of fucking idiot.
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So you will take the post office claims that they are abiding by the law that all deals must be profitable as dubious, and consider an almost pathological liar who uses FoxNews Channel as basically his cabinet and calls pretty much all news fake news that doesn't lick his boots?
There is absolutely no reason to think this is some 'bad deal' for the taxpayer aside from The Whiner in chief having a beef with Bezos because he owns the WP and they have the audacity to call out Trump on his never ending stream of bullshit.
You add that Trump has publicly exclaimed/bragged MANY times on how him/his companies avoiding taxes is just being a good businessman and things become very clear.
I mean, how about the Post Office themselves? https://about.usps.com/news/statements/080117.htm. The USPS has been pretty damn clear on this. https://gizmodo.com/former-postmaster-general-says-trump-is-completely-wron-1825025953
You should take the Post's claims with a grain of salt - not because Bezos owns them, but because any single source should be verified. But this has been, repeatedly.
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God forbid the man be right about something, even if it is motivated entirely by petty spite. The fact that the partnership is good for the USPS isn't equivalent to it being good for commerce in general. Amazon is too fucking big. It's dangerous.
That might (or might not) be true. But it's not the basis of the claims Trump is trying to make. This would be a very different conversation if it was about Amazon becoming a monopoly, or abusive of its power. That has nothing to do with the USPS.
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They wouldn't want to admit they presided over a lousy deal would they? I don't know that it is a lousy deal but people have all kinds of reasons why they would misrepresent something.
love is just extroverted narcissism
Sure, they could. But the target of trumpos rage is not based on the actual deal itself it's based off of (like usual) misconstrued/misrepresented facts. And as everyone really knows the WP...ya know the "AmazonWashingtonPost" as trump likes to call it.
There was some analysis piece done a while back that said the USPS *could/should be charging more* but that doesn't fall into line even close with the narrative Trump is (most likely parroting from fox news) spewing. Multibillion dollar deals are a tad more complex than 'they could be making more, therefore they are losing money' as Trump asserts: "the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon"
Anyway, the deal is secret but the numbers aren't. The deal has shown to be a boon for the USPS because all of their numbers were in a freefall beforehand. That is indisputable and directly attributable to the deal with Amazon.
They are required to pre-fund for employees 75 years out per the interpretation of the government on the law congress passed. This means prefunding retirement for employees that have not been born yet.
It's absurd and anyone that can't see that is a shill or a partisan troll.
That should be handled directly with anti-trust proceedings, not like this.
They only lose more packages because they handle way more packages. It's also why their service is worse.
Think of it this way. In 3 days, USPS handles as much mail pieces as FedEx in a year. UPS is bigger, so it takes USPS about 7 days to exceed UPS' amount. And not surprisingly, I haven't found many people with a high opinion of UPS, either.
The sheer scale of USPS is amazing
Pension plans are normallly invested, not pre-funded. It is fine to go and criticize the investments and bad money management if some details emerge, but pre-funding pensions is not typically demanded of many other goverment agencies. Because the post office manages to be efficient and self sufficient, it angers all the government-is-evil politicians.
Trump did indeed put a hungry, vicious fox into the henhouse of the Department of Education - a woman who wants to privatize education, subsidize private schools, and allow them to have racially segregated student bodies. I can hardly imagine anyone worse for the job. It's not the department of childcare after all.
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USPS is mandated by Congress to budget for future retirements of employees who are not even born yet. Tough to be profitable with that mandate...Easy to target by anti-public-sector folks.
That is not the case. The law says they are to fund pensions with the assumption of people living to 75 years of age. Not 75 years out.
"MUSPSGA! I'm going to double USPS package rates which will double profits! Obama never did that, believe me! Amazon is so unfair, using USPS, can you believe it? Packages! Most people don't know, it's supposed to be a Postal Service. Most people don't know that. Why is Amazon asking the Postal Service to deliver packages? They deliver letters, not packages, so unfair!
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There's a large number of politicians who believe that any government is a waste. They dislike the fact that the USPS even exists, when there are public companies that do the same job. They ignore the fact that the USPS is self sufficient, and remains competitive without tax dollar subsidies. Trump listens to these people, he assigns these people to lead deparatments, so he probably had a thing against USPS even before he got into a fit over Bezos.
It's my understanding that USPS has something called a "bulk discount rate", and Amazon simply utilizes this when using the postal service. Why should Amazon now be prohibited from doing so, or is the proposal to remove the bulk discount rate entirely?
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You can earn a profit off of one transaction, while losing losing money on another.
It's fitting that the story comes from the Washington Post since this has nothing to do with Amazon and EVERYTHING to do with the smear job WAPO has been doing to Trump. Bezos owns WAPO so Trump blames Bezos for everything WAPO does. What amazes me is with all the ammunition Trump freely provides the press WAPO still finds ways to push the envelope on twisting the truth.
You're right, it has nothing to do with Amazon. Trump is punishing Amazon not because of Amazon, but because of the Washington Post.
To be clear. I don't think there's sufficient evidence of collusion, bribery, or obstruction of justice to justify impeachment at this point.
However, I think he is veeeery close with Amazon, and if he actually did order the Postmaster General to double Amazon's rates he's stepped into the realm of trying to economically harm a major business because the owner has a newpaper giving him critical coverage.
If that were to happen I'd say impeach him in a minute.
Not only is it a blatant violation of the 1st amendment but it shows he hasn't the foggiest interest in accepting the responsibilities of being President.
He was elected to lead the country, not own it.
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follow the money. I'll wager you'll find FedEx & UPS bribes of some kind behind this.
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As a heavy user of Amazon, I really, really hope that a USPS rate hike convinces Amazon to stop using them. My package delivery has gotten much slower and less reliable since they started using USPS rather than UPS. I'd love to see them go back to using UPS and FedEx exclusively.
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Your matching 401k (where your employer matches what you put into it) is a pre-funded pension. The full amount of the company's obligation leaves the company's control as soon as you've fulfilled the obligation (worked for a month). If the company goes bankrupt, it doesn't affect your 401k, unlike what nearly happened to GM. When they were in danger of going bankrupt, all their pensioners were in danger of losing their pension. Which would've ended up turning them into bottom-priority creditors who would likely only collect pennies per dollar they were owed. That can't happen with a wholly pre-funded pension where the pension is spun off into a separate entity.
The USPS pension pre-funding requirement was created to prevent the situation California is in. For decades, the state and local government underfunded pension obligations, instead relying on overly optimistic projections of future returns on fund investment to create the illusion that the pensions were adequately funded. As the decades of underfunding built up, the delta between the actual funding and the illusory projected funding grew more and more, until eventually it became impossible to pretend the amount of money in the funds would be enough the pay for all the promised pensions. This has resulted in the paradoxical situation where taxes and tax revenue are going up, but the budget has to be cut - because the extra money is going into paying up those underfunded pensions. Basically, all the money they spent on other things besides pensions in the past, they're having to pay back into the pensions now (past generations stole from the current generation).
The USPS pension pre-funding requirement is basically "if you promise you'll pay someone in the future, put aside enough money now to pay for it." That the requirement has been onerous to the USPS is just an indication that the pension had been underfunded for the past decades. If they'd been keeping up with their pension funding instead of relying on wildly optimistic fund growth estimates to make it look like it was adequately funded, then the USPS wouldn't have had to pay any more than they already were. In other words, if the requirement wasn't hurting the USPS, then that would be evidence that the requirement wasn't needed. But the fact that it is hurting the USPS is evidence that the requirement was needed to halt financial mismanagement before it ballooned into an even bigger problem in the future.
Did you miss the part where the postmaster general said that these arrangements are beneficial to the post office?
Did you miss the fact the financial reports indicate otherwise?
Every single one of you drones brought up pension payments, as if the Post Office could simply not pay pensions. The cost of shipping a package includes servicing debt, but I guess most Slashdot people are too buttery retarded to know even the simplest thing about how a business works.
BTW, "Buttery Retarded" is a phrase that is the sole invention of Autocorrect, but it seemed so apt in this context I bowed the superior wisdom of The Machine.
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Megan Brennan has skin in the game, too. She's also a party to the same deal.
Given that she's expected to have the Post Office's welfare at heart I'd be more impressed by her statements. But I'd prefer an analysis by someone who's not one of the players.
Though I have no indication that Megan has any conflict of interests or is in any way corrupt, a multi-billionaire is in a position to deliver a LOT of incentives. So I'd like to hear an analysis by a less interested party.
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You're totally misconstruing my original statement. "The Postmaster General says ..." is one thing. "Jeff Bezos' newspaper says the Postmater General says ..." is very much another. It's the latter I'm addressing.
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The relevant bit of history is Nixon's enemies list, in which he ordered IRS audits to "screw" his political enemies. In that case, the IRS commissioner Donald Alexander also refused to follow the order to perform the audits, and stored the order in the sealed envelope in his safe until the enemies list was outed by WH Counsel John Dean.
As an aside: there are other bits of that article of impeachment that Trump's folks have been accusing his political enemies of violating, particularly with the FBI and surveillance. That's a neat trick of acting Nixonian whist accusing your enemies of acting Nixonian, I don't know if that counts as projection or muddying the waters, or if it even reaches the heights of Orwellianism. Or perhaps it is simply a childish "no, you are!"
That is incorrect. In Article I, Section 8 the Constitution grants Congress the power to "establish Post Offices and post Roads". If they don't believe Post Offices or post Roads are needed, they are free not to exercise that power and to dismantle said system. In fact, right now, are are there many (any?) active "Post roads" of note in the United States? It seems likely that the postal service will be dismantled in the next 50 years as there will just be insufficient need for it.
Is it also your belief that because Congress has the power to declare war that they should do so even if they don't think it's necessary?
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That's been the GOP plan all along. They'll use that to "prove" that private enterprise is always better, smarter and cost-effective, they'll find a way to screw the workers out of their pensions and amend the constitution to either get rid of $govt_svc or to allow its functions to fulfilled by corporations entirely.
Combine that with Drumpf's hate-boner for anything associated with Jeff Bezos plus his belief that he should be able to run the government to the benefit of his business interests, and...
And there you have it in a nutshell. We're done here.
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Dunno if Amazon is being wronged here or not. Quite possibly they are.
I must say though that it's heartening to see Democrats be so fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry also owning major media outlets. A tad unexpected, but heartening.
The Democratic Party is the more pro-business one these days as Republicans are regressing into protectionist alt-right populism, destroying stability, amassing debt, eroding the rule of law and damaging trade relations with the the world. Also blue states, on average, produce more private sector jobs and have more GDP per capita.
No, you're still losing money. You're just losing less of it, and in this case it is Amazon that is paying less than others.
Depends on the maths used, because as with airline tickets, each seat is sold at a different price to different people. So if the average seat cost was $100, I can still make a profit selling some seats for $200 and others for $50. This is a common free market method for maximising revenue per service.
What Trump is proposing is effectively socialist price controls, ie the government setting fixed fees. Fair enough if you support Soviet style policy, but I'm pretty sure that's not what most Trump voters voted for.
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Can't believe the concept of bulk discounts somehow shocks you.
Amazon pays the same rates every other company shipping millions of packages a year do.
20 years and billions of dollars and the most Hillary was found guilty of was bieng a bitch. Which isn't a crime.
Goldwater, bengahzi. Private email server which every congressman has too. She never broke a law, but she wasn't moral, or likeable.
Trump dealt with foriegn powers to get dirt on his opponents. Which is dirty and a gray area in law too. He routinely skirted and abused laws. Whether he broke laws I don't know. Don't care. Trump will be Trump. When he is done the USA will be broken, the GOP will be broken. And a year or two later, the democrat party will break.
It will be his gift to the USA, not to make America great but to humble it.
I expect the world's reserve currency to drift away from the dollar in the next 10 years due to his trade negotations destroying American ability and economic growth.
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If both President and VP go down, then the Speaker of the House becomes President. Then Senate President Pro Tempore.
This leaves us with Paul Ryan and then Orrin Hatch.
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Trump is using the same argument ISP use to implement usage based billing. You use more so you cost us more. Contact ? read the fine print ? What fine print ? Oh, wait a minute, there , we just added it. You didn't agree to the new terms ? Go with another provider then. What ? You don't have another provider , so sorry, guess that means we have you where we want you . Only Trump forgets that unlike ISP users , amazon can choose to not only switch providers, they can create their own .
You're correct, of course, which is why capitalism *must* be tempered by another system, such as socialism. Otherwise, we have an economic system that's nothing more than a race to the bottom.
20 years and billions of dollars and the most Hillary was found guilty of was bieng a bitch. Which isn't a crime.
Goldwater, bengahzi. Private email server which every congressman has too. She never broke a law, but she wasn't moral, or likeable.
Looking at the evidence of her server issues, what happened rose to the level of a security violation, not an imprisonable offense. As for Behghazi, I wonder where the outrage was during 2000 to 2008. People need to see how many were killed at US embassies during that golden era.
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It's more complicated than that. They have to fund pensions for current employees based on life expectancy. They have to estimate liabilities over a 75 year period, and that does include people who don't currently work there. So USPS has a a future liability that does include people who aren't even born yet, but they're not required to actually come up with the money yet.
What good is being president of the most powerfuyl country in the world if you cannot use that power to go after your personal enemies and amass great wealth?
This just in, Trump popukarity has risen since the election.
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They got around this with Nixon by naming him an indicted coconspirator...
First, there was an actual crime or two committed (Collusion is not a possible crime here)... Second, the charging document did NOT name Nixon, but everyone assumed the unnamed, uncharged conspirator was him.. Third, Nixon never was charged or went to jail (though Ford could be seen as responsible for that).
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President Trump personally urged the leader of the U.S. Postal Service to double the rates the agency charges Amazon and other firms
They're not charging half what FedEx and UPS charge. Doubling the fee would thus mean they're charging more than what FedEx and UPS charge.
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