We just arrived from visiting a sick `in-law` off Castro Valley Blvd. The three women were talking in the room while Paw, Dave and moi were chatting in the hallway. Dave had a neck brace from a bone graft in his neck, which has bolts to keep the bones in place. He told his story about being inside the truck trail, using moving equipment, being injured by a 5,000 pound piece of mail that fell on him and not getting anything since August 19 of this year.
We learned that light duty workers who don’t have sick leave or leave of absences are told to leave their government jobs; that noone is hired for postal carrier jobs; that people are given early retirement; that they lay off people like him and rehire them after two days and sometimes for six months at a time and that the best way to get into the place is through connections.
The loss of around $3.8 billion for the UPSP is a smokescreen, not because people don’t buy postal products like stamps or services like delivery, but the money happens to got into the lining of pockets for stockholders, executives and their bonuses.
The supervisors, for example, get their bonuses. How? As long as the supervisors cross-train their inferiors properly and provide adequate means to make their employees happy, the employees hopefully won’t file grievances against their superiors, no matter how incompetent or annoying they are in person.
I’ve learned that by working together as a team and covering each others’ asses, there is unity, a cohesiveness of corruption, scams, scandals and outright immoral lawlessness. No wonder capitalism is NOT as compassionate or morally and ethically uprighteous as the government (as per the show around noontime on our local radio station 560 AM KSFO – Rabbi Daniel).
Personally, the government does know how to take care of its citizens. Without welfare, unemployment benefits or food stamps, people would go hungry and probably riot in the streets, stealing and killing for lack of sufficient nutrition to keep their psychotic episodes under better control.
This morning on there was an interview with Bill and Melinda Gate. Now Bill seems sincere about spreading his wealth to the less fortunate, feeding, clothing and housing those in countries located in Africa, for example. But when Melinda spoke in response to the interview’s question, she didn’t come across as someone who cared about humanity or the people of Africa.
Business people are all the same – a bunch of pricks. They protect their interests and stockholders and give each other bonuses from those consumers who’d buy anything that makes them better than the rest. If they cared about the less fortunate, wouldn’t they give up ALL their wealth and live among the `middle-class`, knowing they left behind a legacy of generosity?
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