What does any of that have to do with removing underutilized collection boxes from urban areas?
Yes, lets remove underutilized handicap ramps from public buildings. Saves on maintenance, no?
Now you're just conflating unrelated things.
p.s. it is much more efficient to make a mass collection from a public collection box, than it is to stop at every house that has it's flag up to send a birthday card. Remove mass collection boxes and you create a need for individual mail collections at the mailbox. Do you want to wait for your mail to be delivered same day or next week? Budget has nothing to do with it, except to guarantee prompt pick up and delivery. It is a social service which has become the target for capitalist inspired reorganization, i.e. lower quality service for social services programs
You do know that they currently do both, collect from mailboxes as well as collection boxes, right? So when every mailbox is already a collection box, you don't seem to be making any point at all. When they deliver to individual mailboxes they also collect outgoing mail, and it actually saves time and money to do both at the same time. You seem even more ignorant than usual. Have you had your coffee?
Vociferous or any one else:
Trump has been in office for nearly 4 years. He got into office using the "Make America great again".
Please explain what he has actually achieved in 4 years that has made America Great Again...
For the life of me I can't think of one single thing he has done that has done anything other than make America less than it was.
4 years of what?
Before the natural disaster of Covid, record low unemployment (including for veterans), with historically low minority unemployment (for blacks, Hispanics, and Asians), brokered peace deals between Israel and UAE and between Serbia and Kosovo (with mutual agreements with Israel), new trade agreements with Canada, Mexico, and EU, tax cuts for the average citizen and small businesses, terminal patient right-to-try experimental treatments, etc..
I can understand why you have an issue with them. They post fact.
No, they're well-known for being left-leaning. But I wouldn't expect you to know/realize that.
You didn't read your own link, did you?
Your earlier strawman claim:
The Trump administration hasn't done a single thing to stop anyone from voting.
The npr article you linked basically details how Trump and his administration is doing what it can to stop people from voting by mail. Hence why your statement was ridiculous to begin with and basically a troll as you deliberately changed the context and content.. Which doesn't surprise me given that's how you operate.
No, you just don't understand the very simple difference between denying outrageous and partisan emergency funding requests and actively undermining existing services. If you feel trolled, you've trolled yourself.
Only the Democrats huh?
You sure about that? Because
reality doesn't actually support your claims:
In Iowa, the Republican Party mailed absentee ballot applications to voters without waiting for requests. In Pennsylvania, the GOP’s website promotes voting by mail: "Vote Safe: By mail. From home.” And in Ohio, the Republican Party sent mailers with Trump’s photo saying “Join President Trump and Vote by Absentee Ballot.”
Tens of millions of Americans will cast their ballot for president by mail this year — many in Republican-dominated states and swing states where Republican turnout is crucial for Trump — as the coronavirus outbreak keeps Americans at home. And it won’t be the first time. More than 33 million Americans — nearly 1 in 4 — voted by mail in Trump’s election in 2016.
“Vote by mail really works well here in Utah,” said Justin Lee, director of elections in Utah, where the Republican administration sends ballots to every voter in the state. “We do feel it’s safe and secure. We don’t feel there are any real instances of either widespread fraud or voter disenfranchisement.”
And yes, people can vote in person safely. But that isn't really the point here, is it?
Maybe you should read more carefully. I said it's "only Democrats who are claiming people
must vote by mail", not the only ones providing the option. All states have absentee voting and many have expanded that, especially for those most at risk for Covid.
And yes, the whole point is why spend billions, overwork the USPS, potentially delay election results, and undermine election security and voter confidence.
Trump is denying a basic service because he's afraid he'll lose the election. Unfortunately for him, many in rural communities who vote by mail, and who tend to vote conservative, will now also be denied the ability to vote because of what he has done. And that's not even counting on or figuring COVID into that equation.
False. Trump hasn't done a thing to deny existing service.
And who created the mail in vote crisis? The Democrats? Or Trump who has gone out of his way to ensure people can't vote? Or are you suggesting the Democrats invented COVID? Because you aren't clear on either of the batshit crazy reasons your statement could apply for and to.
See above. The Democrats have pushed irrational Covid fears even though experts say in-person voting is safe. So yes, the mail-in voting crisis is their own doing, by any objective measure.
Whether Trump pushes to privatise the USPS is beside the point. He has suddenly declared that it leads to widespread voter fraud without any proof whatsoever.
There have been charges of postal voter fraud in the last year, and a judge ordered a NJ town to redo its election over so many disqualified ballots (far more than enough to sway the result), some of which I've detailed here:
http://sciforums.com/threads/corona-virus-2019-ncov.162778/page-106#post-3646674
And privatising the USPS is one of the
dumbest things Conservatives could push for. Then again, we are talking about Trump's GOP now.. Dumb is the name of the game.
That article is fraught with incomplete and disingenuous arguments. But dumb leftists don't know the difference.
