Does anyone in Congress care about what they're doing? 60 House Bills to Name Post Offices, Zero To Fix Mail Service!

Now you can see just how the congress cares about the problems that America is having.

All they do in congress is argue and never come to a conclusive decision.

congress sucks

It's all just S-O-S Government gridlock. The Senate bill sent to the House was rejected. The Senate has already said they will reject any House plan that differs from theirs.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the $300 Billion Senate Bailout

“While the Postal Service is actually trying to shutter some facilities it does not need, the Senate bill forces the Postal Service to keep over one hundred excess postal facilities open at a cost of $900 million per year. Worst of all, the Senate bill does not stop the financial collapse of USPS, but only delays it for two years, at best, when reforms will only be more painful. The Senate’s approach is wholly unacceptable.”

A competing House bill allows the postmaster to cut services, close offices raise fees and force existing postal employees to pay a greater share of their own retirement. This bill will never get through the Senate because they want to retain control and not let the PMG have that power. Reid had already made note of this.

A temporary fix may happen but I doubt anything substantial will until after the elections. Even then, only if the Republicans get control of both branches. Otherwise we will play this game for another four years.

It's an election year. They are afraid to take the chance of doing something wrong.

it's time we start a revolution. is that how the beatles song goes?

Mail service out my way is great. In fact, I get my mail every day, delivered right to my mailbox. Now, what is your complaint?

You elected these "reformers", these "Tea Baggers" and "Libertarians", these "Conservative Patriots" who promised to get right in there and make things right for you. Are you disappointed? They renamed the Post Office in Clear Creek, Co., and
Sunshine, Tenn., which took a lot of guts and debate among worthy opponents. I've been
around politicts for more than half a century and heard the boasts and braggadocio more times than I've had my hair cut. Same old same old nonsense.

Post Office is the delivery service for corporations who flood the agency with literally billions of pieces of trash mail every month, to deliver for a fee that covers only about 25% of the costs to handle the junk. Want to make PO viable, in fact wildly profitable? Easy,
just have corporations pay the full cost of the trash they send to your house every day.

If we were to send their paychecks via the U.S. Mail they'd find a way to git-r-done then.

Congress has possibly become the largest circle jerk in the history of the world.

Same old, same old.

Kangaroo Court

The USPS doesn't need to be fixed, it needs to be gone. It is a drain on the economy, and private industry can and will do it better

Idiots.

Pure and simple.

You have to understand that our political leaders do things, mandate things that they can live with. Not things that you personally, you the individual can live with.
Political leaders, both democrat and republican have the same goals, and those goals are Pro-Foreign Nations, not Pro-America !!!
Until the American people vote for a party that want's to put the decision making back into the hands of the people who actually live in America, we will see mandates that we don't want or like, and that's tough crap for Americans, because we the people no longer make the decisions that affect our lives, the government does.
This is why I'm with the Green Party, because the Green Party wants to take the power away from the federal government and put it back in the hands of the American people.
The way America was started, where local city halls made decisions of every community, for the people of that community, and not a federal cookie-cutter mandate for all states to follow.
Because the Green Party knows that communities, and people are not all the same, so why should someone who doesn't even live in your community make decisions about your community.
You want something different, something better than what your getting???
Vote for the Green Party.

It's like my grandpa always says. You give them a bill. Either you torture babies or make an orphanage. Their response is, "which gets me more money?"

And the reality is your reap what you sow when voting democrat or republican.
So sow somethng different, or get use to being not represented.

We're already not being represented because our voting doesn't actually affect anything.

My point exactly.

Why are we electing idiots on the basis of their political and religious philosophy?
It's time to wise up and elect those who care about America.

When both democrat and republican political leadership are pro-foreign nations, that's gonna be hard to do.

If they cared, they would be working on the economy and fixing problems.

Yupp, that's what we thought too.

No; they do not care about what they're doing at all. We need to kick them out and replace them with somewhat less destructive people. We also need to privatize the USPS.

Yupp, that's what we think too.

I primarily support the libertarian party because the green party has too many authoritarians in it but you could say that the politicoid group--at least as I'm working on building it--supports green libertariansm.

Yupp, and there is "NO" political group that does not have authoritarians within it, none.

Well this is true, but if you look at the Green Party platform itself it generally involves the use of government. However since I go by individual and not party, if a Green Party candidate had a limited government policy, I would probably vote for that person.

The use of government ?????
How else would you go about running a nation????
The Green Party platform seeks to rebuild the government as we now know it, and turn it into something that people want, that people have a voice in. And to change the decisions back to local government, like your City Hall use to do, but as you can see most city halls are vacant and abandoned property anymore because the federal government has taken over those decisions that local people use to make.
The Green Party seeks to return America back to it's roots with local government of the people. People making decisions about their community they live in, instead of a federal cookie-cutter mandate all communities across America must follow no matter how different they are.
The Green Party knows that communities as people are not all the same, and have different needs.
Yes we would use the government to change America into something never before done, because the Green Party would be that government of the people.
Not like it is now where the government is for the government, not the people.
Ideologies only count for a starting point, the rest is up to the people who actually make it work!

A government powerful enough to tell people what to do and what not to do is a government powerful enough to suppress freedom. I am not strictly opposed to government, but indeed the power if any needs to be held at the local level. A powerful federal government is a constant threat to our freedom.

Yupp, well now there are two of us that think so, just 20 million to go and we might have something worth celebrating about.
Their decision to go to a federal government located Washington D.C. was the biggest mistake they could have ever made, because we the people lost much when that happened, and have ever since.

They are few and far between. The problem is that so few citizens are actually informed or care to be informed about what the leaders they elect do.

Party of no imposing dysfunction

They are self-servers all, and ride the public's coattails.. Name one who is in it for his/her constituents..

I should have put "yes" because Congressmen care a great deal about their behind closed doors deals and corruption. They could care less about being decent legislatures, but they love their graft and wallet lining at our expense.

The lying treasonous congress bastards only care about following their bankers orders and instructions! Put all of them in prison TODAY!!!!

Obviously not! If our tax dollars were not squandered and frittered away by Congress we would be paying far far less than what they steal from us now.

It's time we RENAME CONGRESSMEN!!

Congress doesn't give a damn about the population. It couldn't be more apparent. They would rather sit around discussing who to name post offices after than come up with solutions to the economic problems we all face.

Other than rag on and on about Planned Parenthood, the House has been busy with the Post Office names and naming parks and such. Oh, they have also sent 20-30 " jobs bills" to the Senate. None are really jobs bills. Almost all have something to do with Obamacare, so they never go anywhere. So they change a few words and try again pushing it off as a jobs bill. Harry Reid finally asked that they send a " Stand Alone" jobs bill. In other words, about jobs and nothing else. No more "jobs bills" came from the House.

The worthless Republican House. All they do is take up space.

And the Dem controlled one before that did so much for American!

Both parties are corrupt and self serving.