Why does the US Post Office subsidize Alaska package delivery to remote towns and villages? These subsidies have cost the PO $2,500,000,000 over the past decades! To cut government subsidies and expenditures, the Congress is cutting programs that benefit large numbers of people, but is continuing to subsidize a few. If people want to live of the gird, they should pay for the right and not expect the rest of us to do it for them.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...1e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html?hpid=z1 Yeah! All them damn natives should move to the city like everyone else! Why should the fact that their families have lived on the edge for hundreds of years get them special services like mail? (TIC)
I have no problem with them living wherever they want; I do have a problem with subsidizing air delivery of Coca Cola.
Well, it'd be delivered by truck, except there ain't any roads. Alaska has minimal, at best, infrastructure, and as such most rural communities are serviced via air.
We kinda like the remoteness up here, and as Uncle Ted once said, we're about 100 years behind the Lesser 48 in regards to roads and public services. Hell, there are villages up here with honeybuckets as there is no sewage system available, and you've got your thong in a twist over subsidized USPS service?
Tell ya what, we'll sell our oil to the highest bidder, as opposed to the U.S at their set prices, and then we'll be happy to cut the USPS subsidy.
There's a chit load of gubbiment waste, and programs, ain't no argument here. But bitching about folks who've lived Out There since before Alaska was even on a map getting a basic service like mail sure do show your inability to grasp much....
