How about the white people who were turned down for those jobs in the first place because of their race? Oh, nobody cares about them.
Maybe if the post office would hire based on skills and merit instead of social engineering, it would not be going out of business. At Christmas when I had packages, I drove 9 miles each way to the post office in a certain colorless suburb. Walked right in, got served, walked out, and made it home in less time than it would have taken to stand in line for 45 minutes to an hour at the minority-staffed one 2 miles from home.
How’s that multiculturalism working for ya? Are less-able people being lifted up, gaining more education and culture, and making the most of greater opportunities? Or are less-able people dragging everything else down, slowing traffic, dumbing down services, speaking unitelligibly, lowering the tone of public manners, routinely engaging in petty crime and rule-breaking in the workplace, then crying discrimination?
That’s right. The USPS is a great big welfare program. Just like the IRS.
Post Office is NOT delivering mail in Red Hampshire today...NO ONE can recall the USPS wimping out on account of snow...
(D-MD) ping...
Since any job cuts will be based upon lower seniority, only the old white guys will be left.
Government employees....meet reality. Kinda sucks, doesn’t it?
Hey Elijah, I know.... just layoff ‘white folks’. That will solve your problem!
Gee, how many "minorities" will be affected by the Defense cuts and proceeding layoffs? Won't a lot of those laid off be "minorities", or will all those laid off from Defense cuts be white males? So who cares about them, right?
Distraction and deflection. Typical Lefty tactic. Sequestration was zero's idea. Now, all of a sudden, he doesn't want it? Didn't think the Repubs would go through with it? Repubs and Right-leaning commentators need to mention that sequestration was zero's idea every chance they get - like every other sentence. Low-information voters have thick heads, tin ears, and mushy brains - it takes a lot to get through to them (and keep it simple!!).
Hey LL, you need to “dial up” Muawiyah” our resident FR minority rep for the USPS to tell us all why good old Elijah is right on the money! Surprised he’s not already posted a diatribe in support of keeping everyone over at the USPS on the dole!
Personally, if it weren’t for the Constitutional requirement for a Post Office, I’d favor shutting the whole thing down. But then what would we do with the 500,000 odd government “sponges” that would have to live on their generous government pensions? And just think how it would affect the auto industry not having to build all those funny jeep thingies they drive around in! What a dilemma!
Noted!
Perhaps they should hire some new non-minority employees for the expressed purpose of cutting them so some idiot of a Congressman won't make a fool of himself.
Cummings obviously doesn’t give a damn about the other 60%, presumably WHITE employees that may suffer.
Racist SOB!
Tough rocks if they end up in the dead letter office.
Leni
It’s false that downsizing would affect disproportionately affect minorities because the Postal Service has a “no layoff” policy. People leave through normal attrition, buyouts, and retirement.
What the complaint is about is that the unions will have fewer Obama/H. Clinton voters in the future workforce to replace the ones leaving.
“Single mothers hardest hit’’. Has Laz been at it again?
Can anyone tell me of another business that cut their service 16.7 % (one day of six, which is pretty much not needed) that needs to cut 30,000 jobs out of 583,000 employees...?
Privatize the post office and it will be solvent in 18 months...
God was fed up with what had happened on His earth, so he decided to destroy it. But before pulling the plug, He decided to give four newspapers a 24-hour warning, and revealed His plans to the editors thereof.
The headlines in the next editions of the papers were interesting.
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The New York Times ran a typically cautious, nuanced, and lengthy headline:
HIGHLY-PLACED SOURCE HINTS AT WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION
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The Wall Street Journal focused, as always, on the financial repercussions:
Gold Vaults to New High; Markets to Close Early
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USAToday was typically pithy:
We're outta here!
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And the Washington Post stayed true to form to the end:
World to end; women and minorities to suffer most
Yes, and Asians, African-Americans and Hispanics comprise about 40 percent or so of the country's population as a whole, dumbass. They are not disproportionately represented in the Postal Service. They may be in lower socioeconomic strata, but they are NOT disproportionately represented.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Excellent. There's room in there to 'save' 30,000 jobs for people who are not eligible to retire, right? /s
I'm enraged by this talk of "compassion" for the SOLE REASON of saying women and minorities are most at risk.