Beyond idiocy: Postal workers continue hunger strike against proposed delivery cuts
Six former and current postal workers, part of a group called Communities and Postal Workers United, are calling the strike “six days starving to save six-day delivery.” Their goal is to stop Congress from reducing postal delivery to five days a week.
Remind me again, how much are we borrowing a day to run the country? Oh yeah, I remember…
The country is borrowing roughly $6 billion every day, and $239 million every hour. Put another way, that’s $4 million every minute.
At best the protestors are ignorant at worst their either supremely selfish or stoopid. This is one of many exhibits on why addressing both our debt and deficit problems is so difficult. When history books are written, we are going to look very very stoopid for not taking our medicine and addressing this problem.
