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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Bi-valve Mollusk wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On 2/18/2025 7:57 AM, Darth Xmas wrote:   
   >> He will save taxpayers billions of dollars.   
   >   
   > As opposed to this stellar record of savings from the government (USPS):   
   >   
   > 2024: $9.5 billion loss   
   > 2023: $6.5 billion loss   
   > 2022: $950 million loss   
   > 2021: $4.9 billion loss   
   > 2020: $9.2 billion loss   
   > 2019: $8.8 billion loss   
   > 2018: $3.9 billion loss   
   > 2017: $2.7 billion loss   
   > 2016: $5.6 billion loss   
   > 2015: $5.1 billion loss   
   > 2014: $5.5 billion loss   
   > 2012: $15.9 billion loss   
      
   What makes you think privatizing will make it better?   
      
   --   
   This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because   
   the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it   
   recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"   
   the airline industry.  What this means for you, the consumer, is that the   
   airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever.  They can   
   show snuff movies.  They can charge for oxygen.  They can hire pilots right   
   out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.  They can conserve fuel by   
   ejecting husky passengers over water.  They can ram competing planes in   
   mid-air.  These innovations have resulted in tremendous cost savings which   
   have been passed along to you, the consumer, in the form of flights with   
   amazingly low fares, such as $29.  Of course, certain restrictions do apply,   
   the main one being that all these flights take you to Newark, and you must   
   pay thousands of dollars if you want to fly back out.   
   		-- Dave Barry, "Iowa -- Land of Secure Vacations"   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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