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The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: Tarheel on August 13, 2009, 12:19:41 AM

Title: "Obamacare Likely to Emulate Post Office"
Post by: Tarheel on August 13, 2009, 12:19:41 AM

Well...we all know that it's true...this is an excerpt from Newsmax.com, all emphasis is my own:

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Obamacare Likely to Emulate Post Office

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:43 PM

By: Lowell Ponte

“UPS and FedEx are doin' just fine,” President Barack Obama told his carefully selected audience of supporters at Tuesday's mock town hall meeting in New Hampshire.

“It's the post office that's always having problems.”

Obama intended his comparison to show that a government entity can compete with private companies without destroying them, just as he claims a government health insurance company could provide healthy competition to improve private insurers.

Republicans for months rightly said that the federal government would run our healthcare system “with the compassion of the IRS and . . . the efficiency of the post office. . . ."

Echoing this on Tuesday, Obama seemed to agree that his Democratic health scheme will indeed be like the post office.

Obama spoke only days after the United States Postal Service (USPS) acknowledged that it will end 2009 $7 billion in the red. USPS threatened to close 700 local post offices and curtail Saturday mail deliveries if Congress is slow to boost its taxpayer subsidy.
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Full article:
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/ups_fedex_usps_obama/2009/08/12/247105.html (http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/ups_fedex_usps_obama/2009/08/12/247105.html)

Title: Re: "Obamacare Likely to Emulate Post Office"
Post by: AUTiger1 on August 13, 2009, 12:44:50 AM

I am sure that gov't healthcare will be more than 7 billion in the red. 

Title: Re: "Obamacare Likely to Emulate Post Office"
Post by: CCTAU on August 13, 2009, 11:30:58 AM

Quote from: AUTiger1 on August 13, 2009, 12:44:50 AM

I am sure that gov't healthcare will be more than 7 billion in the red. 

And that will be on day ONE.

Title: Re: "Obamacare Likely to Emulate Post Office"
Post by: Buzz Killington on August 13, 2009, 01:10:41 PM

Quote from: CCTAU on August 13, 2009, 11:30:58 AM

And that will be on day ONE.

And it will be Bush's fault.