[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
In the case of the post office, because my wife works there, so I know what goes on. They earn 30+ dollars an hour, they have 4 people doing the job of one, they get 6-8 weeks a year holidays, it’s bloated, and poorly run, but it dosen’t matter, because they don’t have to operate with a bottom line in mind. If they come in over bugget, they just get a bigger bugget next year, and our taxes go up.
You can’t run a real companey like this, if there was two private companies competing for our mail buisness, they would have to keep prices compeative, and watch they’re bottom line. This is the nature of buisiness, but goverment offices don’t have to run like this, they become out of control, and top heavy, with too maney beucrats getting over paid, to do nothing, real companies can’t, and don’t have this.
The CEO of Canada post ( figure head) is Tupac Shopra, he makes over a million dollars a year from Canada post, and does nothing for them. He goes around the world writing books on inner peace, and teaching yoga or some shit, but gets a cheque from Canada post. I only know all this because of my wife, but I’m sure every other goverment segment is run like this. I have no problem paying taxes, but there way to high right now, especialy for small buisiness, and the money gets wasted.
It’s become all the same, it dosen’t matter who you vote for, they’re all the same now days, bloated money wasters, only worried about they’re own ass, and how much money they can make themselves, and they’re corprate buddies. Big mega companies like Walmart, and such, get huge tax breaks, because they do shady deals behind closed doors, as long as the politians, are getting rich themselves, they let they’re corprate buddies smash the middle class.
Think about it, if Walmart wants wages even lower, then they back a politian, and use they’re money to get him in power, then he owes them, and lower’s the minum wage even further. This is how it gets done, and unless you have a couple billion dollars, your voice dosen’t matter anymore. Nobody’s voted in anymore, they’re bought by powerful organizations, then spend they’re time in ofice granting favours. It’s been this way for awhile and I can’t see it changing. The rich get richer, and the middle class disapears. Reality, everyone gets bought, or pushed aside, and buried
I can’t seem to keep my posts small on this subject 
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I’m glad you don’t. Your posts, although “ranty” are a very true assessment about how things are and will continue to be.
It’s called personal accountability. Everyone wants to blame other people for all of their problems. Sometimes, it may be the case but I doubt that’s a large percentage of the people. What are YOU going to do about your situation? That’s the difference between the people at the bottom and the people in the middle.