(April 3, 2018 at 12:31 pm)wallym Wrote: The post office is losing money overall. And an allegedly significant part of that is the shit deal with Amazon.
I've already pointed out that there is a law which prevents the post office from losing money from these deals. The deal was also reviewed by an independent commission and approved. This has nothing to do with overall profitability.
Quote:Again, going back to poker, if you're losing money overall. And you're barely over breaking even with AA and KK, I would say the money you're losing playing Aces and Kings poorly is why you are losing money. And someone who doesn't think that way would say "No, he's making money with Aces and Kings. You're wrong."
You can't make a statement like that without knowing what the player's other hands were, and more importantly, what the other players had when you have AA and KK. If you have AA and everyone else has shit, even if you slow play them, you aren't going to convince someone to go for a large pot if all they have is high card or a pair. Similarly, if 99% of your other hands were rubbish, and you are terrible at bluffing, then you are losing money because you are terrible at bluffing, not just because you play AA and KK badly. Good poker players don't sit around and lose money hoping that they get AA or KK. Good poker players can turn a shit hand into gold.
Could the post office make more money off the Amazon deal? Certainly. However that's not the reason they are losing money overall, because they are actually profitable in that area. No business should point to its profitable area as a problem, when they are losing money in another area.
Trump is lying when he says that the post office is losing money from the Amazon deal. They aren't. They are actually making money. Whether they could make more money from it is entirely separate from the fact that they are actually making money from it. Trump is lying, plain and simple. You are twisting his words in a laughable attempt to make it seem like he has some kind of advanced understanding, when he just doesn't. He's lying. It's OK if you support the President, I don't particularly care, but you can't be taken seriously as a Trump supporter if you don't admit the guy lies, because at that point you're just deluding yourself.
