That is all.

Thanks for asking. Only Congress can kill the USPS. They're working hard to do that, too. But, as a national institution, I do not believe it will ever happen. State-run postal systems are the norm. They will continue to be. The TPP will not kill the Post Office. The argument that they will is so tightly stretched that the rubber band will break soon.

I'm a big Post Office supporter, and I'm confident there is nothing in the TPP that threatens them. Jeeez what a load of bull.

This is one of the weakest possible arguments against the TPP. A desperation argument.

BTW, you never responded to my explanation of your false claim regarding my "cliches" in another thread. You can find my reply in your My Posts list.

though cliche is also apt. As for the tpp and the post office, it's the threat from TISA that concerns me. I somehow doubt you've read the New Republic piece about TISA that's Ben posted here, but it's a good, informative read.

http://www.google.com/#q=bromides+definition
http://www.google.com/#q=cliche+definition

what you speak.

Truly.

Then it should be an easy task for you to rebut it.

I even gasp, posted about it here.

Not that it matters. It's only labor, organized at that, which is trying to raise the alarm.

will it kill the USPS immediately? Likely no.
But like so many Republican projects, the USPS will be chipped away at until it is almost recognizable over several decades. TPP, TISA na TTIP will among the tools that tea baggers will use.

Good for heavy manufacturing, agriculture, software, chemicals, electronics, extraction, pharma, and services; bad for medium and light manufacturing, fisheries, textiles, and possibly autos (a lot of that depends on how the Japan language shakes out). A few hundred thousand jobs will be lost and a few hundred thousand jobs will be created. Though even that is probably an overstatement because it's unlikely to significantly change the existing bilateral agreements, so it will mostly just be the bloc effects that we currently don't have.

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I didn't see it go that way; that's not how we imagined that rule would be enforced; we just didn't know; or we realize now that it was a mistake, I think it will be the day that I start to believe that maybe the answer will come from a global leader, because our country has certainly run out of ideas.

Occam's razor.

And Obama is NOT an idiot, so there's that.

Nor is it agreed to by anyone including the President.

One huge giveaway to corporations.

I think this is another instance where neo-liberals think they have found a project that creates a happy marriage between social justice and corporate interests. Somehow, they think we can fix another country's economic problems by tying their load to our wagons.

It's going to fail because no one in Washington D.C. has really made any effort to improve the financial welfare of the working class in the U.S. They are so blind that they can't see that the metaphorical wagon has no wheels, and is being propelled on the shoulders of the American worker.

Nor has Washington D.C. come up with any fresh ideas for the Tech workers since the dot.com era -- and all that was just a bubble. Speaking of bubbles, I think that the only thing this country is good at is cinema and marketing. These are industries that bundle ideas that reach into our imagination. Of the two, cinema, which sells fake stories, is the most honest.

They've been a stand-alone entity for decades now.

The Indiana Toll Road, I-80 and 90 linking Chicago to the East Coast, being a prime example.

and then use the unprofitable ones (of course in government hands still) to prove that you had to sell off the profitable ones because government can't turn a profit! it's therefore self-justifying--you just have to forget that little trick at the beginning

remember, the Caracazo was started by a "populist" who won because he damned the IMF--and then turned around and did everything they said

and if he'd been a Democrat we would've repealed the 22nd Amendment for him, because we can't afford a purity purge in such a time of crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Alfredo_Mart%C3%ADnez_de_Hoz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Jorge_Blanco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez

It's a highly-regulated utility.

There's smoke to blow around...

Never mind...

That's the job of the TISA.

if they aren't doing it for guns it won't happen to the post office.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

The pretending is what galls.