The Three Tenets of Existential Terrorism

Words are not things or actions. They are vibrations of the air molecules or squiggles on a page. Mistaking words for reality is the mistake that puts politicians in office and sells all of the products, religions, and systems of government on the planet. Saying "Tree" is no more a tree than saying "I love you" means that someone loves you. To perceive reality as it is, one must accept that words are a vehicle for the transference of our perception of reality, not reality itself.
God is dead. I killed him (it, them, her, et al) on November 5th, 1991. Justifiable Homicide. The idea that the universe is run by some cosmic supra-hero concept of ourselves is absurd and unproven. The idea that the creator of the universe put us here in these bodies to satisfy some moral experiment is offensive. The God question; "What are we doing here?", may or may not be valid. At this time, we are here because the physical laws of the universe are not completely against our existence. Our short time of consciousness would be far better served ensuring our survival rather than posturing before some misanthropic cosmic deity.
The only government, the only rule of law, is economics. However our societies are structured, whatever religion or ethnicity, we have all decided that those with relatively more assets have better lives than those with less relative wealth. All measured value is economic value in this system.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Gutless Wonders and the USPS



The United States Postal Service is planning on punishing the people it serves because it is fiscally incompetent.  The USPS plans to reduce Saturday delivery to packages beginning in August 2013.  This is not the first time the fiscally incompetent have chosen to reduce services rather than address the problem.  California politicians regularly threaten cuts to police and fire departments to get tax increases that will support a bloated and inefficient union bureaucracy.  The same thing is happening to the USPS.  They are reducing services to the people paying for it because they cannot stand up to the unions who have increased compensation to the point of insolvency,

The postal service has lost revenue due to the information age and yet has stayed away from the very technology that could save it (If it would also pay a competitive wage package, which is inconceivable under the thumb of the unions).  The post office should be working on a way to deliver everything electronically.  The bulk of the mail (junk), could be delivered by the USPS to a secure, physical address based, web based mail box.  Everything printed is digitally prepared anyway.  People could opt in or out of digital delivery and the post office could stop the horribly inefficient task of running to millions of homes of day with bits of paper destined for landfills.

Instead, they keep the same model little removed from the previous century.  They do this because they and the Congress are gutless wonders when it comes to challenging the ultimate authority:  The Postal Workers Union.  We pay the price.   

Addendum:
A day after I wrote about politicians threatening vital service cuts unless taxes are increased, the following came from Los Angeles about a proposed tax increase:   Villaraigosa said: “We cut a third of the Los Angeles civilian general fund budget. We’ve had consolidations of departments, we found efficiencies. We’ve done everything that we can. When you look at the kinds of tough decisions that we’ve made … I can now support a sales tax increase.”  Done everything he can except reduce bloated wages and benefits, which is the bulk of inefficiency in government, but that would mean going against the unions.    
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