re: America is ‘going broke slowly’ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons

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USPS has 533,000 career employees as of 2024. USPS also has 106,000 non-career employees (i.e. seasonal/temporary) in 2024.

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The US Postal Service receives nary a dollar from tax revenue for operations. There is a small amount of tax money that pays for postal service employee health benefits as a result of congress forcing the postal service to lend money to other government agencies which in turn meant the postal service was placed in a position that required them to accept tax dollars to fund about 1/100th of 1% of their employee health benefits. Without the US Postal Service, which is constitutionally mandated, private companies like UPS and FedEx could not function. Neither has the capital or government mandate to establish a system of mail and package delivery ...the costs to do so would be far to great to do so profitably without the ground work having been completed by the postal service without any financial assistance from tax payers. If the postal service was once again allowed to operate banks as was originally mandated the banking industry would be far more accessible to normal Americans and would be more affordable without a single penny coming from tax revenues...but the banking industry could not compete against postal banks so had them eliminated and here we are.

An estimated 70% of federal employees not employed as law enforcement or medical professionals are employed in an oversight roll where their roll is to keep federal contractors from completely robbing the taxpayer and provides the goods and services that they are being paid to provide. While their effectiveness in that roll is debatable....by all accounts there are far too few of them to be extremely effective.. They are also constantly undermined by politicians who are lobbied to allow sub par performance of contractors at inflated prices...to cut the number of people who inspect goods and services, review and administer contracts and go after contractors when they inevitably fail to perform would only up the door even wider for contractors to run amuk....which is the entire point of the movement to eliminate federal workers.


OSHA is a prime example of this. OSHA is constantly used as a scape goat by industry and their workers as the reason things are so expensive in the US. There are 1875 total OSHA inspectors in the US and 11.5 Million workplaces covered by OSHA...and those work places move constantly, many are here today and gone tomorrow or in a few hours. It is a dynamic situation. If OSHA were to inspect every one of those work places it would take those inspectors nearly 3 months if they averaged a work place an hour, without a holiday or a sick day or a vacation day....2080 hours a year. There is no way they can average an inspection an hour, it is not feasibly possible between travel time and accessing work sites and producing a report. In fact if they average one a day for the amount of time they are paid to work they are doing about 3 times what is logistically possible. OSHA is NO threat to anyone. The reason workplaces have gotten safer is INSURANCE and public opinion which has shifted toward it being a bad look to kill a bunch of employees. OSHA is not doing jack shite because they are undermanned, underfunded and reigned in by crooked politicians who have been bought by lobbyists.

If we were serious about holding government contractors responsible when they do indeed pay a fine they should be put out of business and their management team should be on the street panhandling for the rest of the wretched lives. Instead we fine them a piddling amount and then pay them to correct their mistakes and when they do we act as they over performed and reward their corruption...all because of crooked politicians. Y'all are blaming the wrong person...its not the nurse elbow deep in human shite at a VA hospital that is the problem, it is the crooked arse politicians and corrupt arse contractors robbing the taxpayers who foot the bill for that nurse to deal with that shite. But y'all do what you do....government contractors LOVE you for it and they do indeed suffer when they only own 8 vacation homes.....