Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

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BigOrangeMojo said:
Might be trying to get tailwind from the jetstream. I'm just speculating and that's just an educated guess....

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I think there are several reasons, apparently the pilot later said it was turbulence but I'm pretty certain "it should be a straight line" is very dumb
 
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NashVol11 said:
@FLVOL_79 thoughts?

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Flying in a straight line I believe is referred to as direct routing and I think it’s the exception not the rule, at least for commercial airliners. A pilot told me a long time ago you see the business jets do this regularly but not the airlines. Biz jets climb above the rest of the traffic following the “highways in the sky” and just go direct.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
It's my understanding that Thomson Reuters owns a lot of things--Reuters Group included, as of the 2008 acquisition of Reuters Groups by Thomson in 2008.

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Literally every CPA firm in the entire United States uses these clowns. The same ones that also use QuickBooks because nobody knows anything differentl lol
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
He's a moron and doesn't understand air traffic. His involvement with the faa is just to get more defense contracts. I'm sitting in meetings with his people this week and witnessing it first hand.
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People writing the “rules” not knowing what they’re talking about??
Where have we seen that before?
Maybe the last time anyone did anything in Washington?

My favorites will always be the dumbasses trying to write gun laws.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
I tend to agree, but wouldn't necessarily label it as "sucked". I've been lucky to have lived at just few residents over my lifetime. In the those places, I've never experienced poor service. I've had some friendly acquaintances with mail carriers. They've all done a fantastic job. Reliable and on-time. Again, I am lucky. That being said, it's been too much of a money pit. Would like to see a detailed audit done on the USPS. I'm wondering if funds have been diverted to other agencies. Just a thought
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willing to bet the money stayed in the USPS "system". it just went to admin, non producers, and various contracts that generated no upside.

My opinion is that the failures of the USPS are pretty indicative for the government as a whole. its just the easiest thing for us to see and judge.

Georgia/Atlanta's is really bad. I got my parent's Christmas card before I got their Thanksgiving card. I still get all mailed bills, most of them arrive AFTER their due date. package delivery by them is not even hit or miss, its just miss. I will routinely pay more for the non-USPS option given the chance.
 
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LouderVol said:
did you miss Covid? That is exactly what the government did. it divided society up based on if their job was important or not.
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Any "mandates" were local/state. The Federal government didn't tell you in Tennessee that your job was/wasn't important. Hell, there were no mandates here. We were sending fast food workers out as "critical" workers. The hinderance here was that places closed dining rooms, which was nothing to whether a job was important or not.

The Federal government gave gobs of cash out while that was going on.
 
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LouderVol said:
willing to bet the money stayed in the USPS "system". it just went to admin, non producers, and various contracts that generated no upside.

My opinion is that the failures of the USPS are pretty indicative for the government as a whole. its just the easiest thing for us to see and judge.

Georgia/Atlanta's is really bad. I got my parent's Christmas card before I got their Thanksgiving card. I still get all mailed bills, most of them arrive AFTER their due date. package delivery by them is not even hit or miss, its just miss. I will routinely pay more for the non-USPS option given the chance.
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We hired a guy that wanted USPS to run as a business and make money.
USPS is a service. It doesn't make or lose money -- it costs money.
 
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jwells said:
Any "mandates" were local/state. The Federal government didn't tell you in Tennessee that your job was/wasn't important. Hell, there were no mandates here. We were sending fast food workers out as "critical" workers. The hinderance here was that places closed dining rooms, which was nothing to whether a job was important or not.

The Federal government gave gobs of cash out while that was going on.
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the feds/OSHA/DHS created the list that defined what was critical. about half the states adopted that list without modification. most of the rest only slightly modified it. it was up to the states to choose what to enforce, but last I checked the state government is still a government.
 
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jwells said:
We hired a guy that wanted USPS to run as a business and make money.
USPS is a service. It doesn't make or lose money -- it costs money.
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I would accept it as a service, if it actually worked reliably for most of this country. but it doesn't. spending more money on it has never increased the efficiency of it.
 
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