Arkouda

Education is a service that can be run for profit.

Infrastructure building can be run for profit.

Home building can be run for profit.

Doesn’t mean any of it should.

I would rather my tax dollars go to the services we need which includes postal. You may live in an area that easily has other alternatives, but this is Canada and most of our country is rural.

I added to the conversation. Care to do the same?

I always try to prepare in a way that does not require things like electricity and fuel considering that if you require either for long term survival you are putting yourself on a ticking clock. Things I have in a go bag are some basic tools, some basic supplies like food and water, and a local outdoor survival manual that I purchase when a new addition comes out.

Healthcare is a service that can be run for profit.

Education is a service that can be run for profit.

Infrastructure building can be run for profit.

Home building can be run for profit.

Doesn't mean any of it should.

I would rather my tax dollars go to the services we need which includes postal. You may live in an area that easily has other alternatives, but this is Canada and most of our country is rural.

In your mind there are only monotheistic religions practiced in modern times, and the only other religions practiced in the world involved human sacrifice and those practices are no longer present in modern times?

What is "A saying used until someone commits a crime against the speaker" Alex.

If you need a fictional character to tell you to act like a decent human being then you’re not a good person.

What happens when you need a real person to tell you to act like a "decent human being" like every human in existence today? Are we all by nature "evil" because we require third parties to dictate what "good" is?

Public services are allowed to operate in the red because the money to operate them, provided by tax revenue, is fixed by the budget and does not need to be paid back. We pay for the service through taxation and if the service requires more money to operate efficiently we should be either increasing taxes to cover the cost or trimming management positions.

Canada Post is a public service and allowed to operate in the red. It does not need, and should not be required to, make a profit.

Phrased in a different way: if you see something that looks like a spring in the desert, then that might not mean that you will be able to drink from it, but you can be certain that, in that moment, you are seeing something that looks like a spring in the desert.

Phrased in a different way: if you see something that looks like a ~~spring~~ unicorn in the desert, then that might not mean that you will be able to ~~drink from~~ pet it, but you can be certain that, in that moment, you are seeing something that looks like a ~~spring~~ unicorn in the desert.

no, unicorns aren’t real.

Then why are you arguing that the spring is?

Oh right, because you are a pseudo intellectual who is full of shit.

Take care

You may want to read what I said and try again.

That is a might big brush you have there. Try painting yourself with it.