Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog > Can Environmental Advocacy Organizations be Good Stewards of the Environment?

Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog > Can Environmental Advocacy Organizations be Good Stewards of the Environment?: 'The willingness of the national organizations to bargain away real-world, earth-bound enviornmental stewardship for abstract policy objectives such as climate change should be worrying. How much of the environment are they willing to trade off for climate change, particularly since virtually no meaingful metrics exist for judging the effectiveness of this plant in meeting climate change goals which are global in scale? And the vast majority of greenhouse gases that will be released into the atmosphere over the next 50 years will come from rapidly industrializing countries such as China and India, regardless of what the US can accomplish?'

USPS: The Cursed Carriers - Brian Anderson - Mises Daily

USPS: The Cursed Carriers - Brian Anderson - Mises Daily: 'The 12 cent stamps sold by the USPS were no match for Spooner's 3 cent stamps, so the US government, in order to oppose the inevitable, officially declared that all city streets were to be deemed post roads, available only to the USPS in letter delivery.'

'While labor costs represent only 32 percent and 53 percent of expenses for FedEx and United Parcel Service, respectively, they represent an astounding 80 percent for the USPS.'