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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Agree with Kramer. Mail is mostly a pain..I thrown out 90% before opening. Most of it is advertising and requests for money from Catholic “charities”. Every time I give money to a Catholic charity I get 10 solicitations from others. I am under the impression that the Catholic “charity” business is a racket perpetrated by business for profit. It is likely the charity receives only a small portion.
@Michael, Sadly it requires personal research to determine if the charity is worthwhile. I have found that most “charities” which reach out to you unsolicited are bogus. The ones I give to haven’t resulted in additional charity harassment though, so true Catholic charities do exist.
I cut out a lot of junk mail by telling the credit companies selling my name. Went from three or four credit offers a day to only getting the “you have a VA loan, refinance with us!”
https://www.mass.gov/guides/consumer-guide-to-stopping-junk-mail
von Mises’ magnum opus HUMAN ACTION was my reading material while suffering my weekday subway journey to work in Manhattan at the FlatIron Building. A brilliant economist, totally overlooked because he points out the harmful outcomes of government profligacy. A man worth quoting.
Three weeks ago I visited a nearby Post Office only to find that I needed a mask which I did not have with me. I was told to leave without conducting business. Even though all of MA (yes MA?!) was opened up, the Post Office being a federal building required a mask. I’m not sure it that’s changed now. I hardly go there.
Last week I discovered that even though a person may have a firearm license in a given state, entering a Post Office (classified as a federal building) with a firearm is a federal crime. I do not carry, but just how many people know this? https://about.usps.com/posters/pos158.pdf
The Deep State is committed to maintaining fear in the populace… and disarming them.. an example is as close as your nearest US Post Office.
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig von Mises
The US national debt skyrocketed 26% to $28.3 trillion from 2019 to last week. The US Federal Reserve total assets grew 93% between March 2020 and last Friday to $8.1 trillion, $7.5 trillion, 93%, of which are UST securities. Money supply as reported under M2 rose 30%+ from May 2020.
And, the latter-day Einsteins insist that inflation is “transitory.” That’s one reason why “unexpectedly” is their go-to preposition.
Next do the DMV. Obama handed over healthcare to the equivalent of the DMV.
No joke went to deliver a package at the USPS. Around noon someone yelled lunch break and all the counter windows were closed, they turned off the lights. There were still people in line but USPS doesnt care. I mean you couldn’t bother to stagger workers lunch times so that customers can get served around noon?!?
A salutary service for this country, IMO, would be the complete dissolution of the USPS. It has long since passed its “use by” date. It will never happen short of total national collapse, of course, but I can dream.
Why would you want it dissolved? It’s a legitimate service provider, just an inefficient one. You can put it on the auction bloc.
In rural Virginia the library and the post offices are the life blood of hamlets and towns. Many rural people do not have checking accounts. They pay their bills in cash, by preloaded credit cards or by money orders. USPS money orders are cheap. Most of the offices are small with one or three full time employees plus.rural carriers. The county seat PO receives packages from Amazon at 3 am which then are sent out with the rural carriers. The lunch hours are posted. Ours Mon – Fri is 1-2 pm as there is one in office employee. Thankfully we still have Sat hours half day. Of course there are frustrations – Some rural carriers will leave a package out in the rain rather than a notification. All mail goes to Richmond’s sorting center. Well known for losing or delaying mail. In my case a certified tax return lost. Forunately there wasn’t a check enclosed. Mailing a letter to a community/ town 12 miles away, the letter goes to Richmond and then back. Same with mail in the same PO zip unless the addressee has a PO box. Better to drive to the addressee’s zip code PO if it is a reasonable distance.
The library system is great, however. 24 hour wifi, so often the parking lot has cars after hours, because internet is not available everywhere. Our Congressman is working on that. Not everyo household has a computer or smart phone so there are 10 computers availble for use in the library. Also free coping, faxxing and scanning. A good amount of audio books, DVDs, CDs plus newspapers and magazines. Book clubs, chair yoga, computer classes, summer reading programs for children and adults. Story hour w a trained dog. Various presentations. One of my favorites is the intra and inter libary book loan program.
The library system is great.