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Tesselator
Jul 25, 2009, 12:35 PM
AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT (AWNAA)


WASHINGTON , DC (AP) - President Obama and the
US Congress are considering sweeping legislation which provides
new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With
No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislation
by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or
ambition.



"Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess
the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role
for themselves in society," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed
and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able
to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they do
a better job, or have some idea of what they are doing."



The President pointed to the success of the US
Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing
opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of
postal employees lack job skills, making this agency the single largest US employer
of Persons of Inability.



Private sector industries with good records of
nondiscrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), home
improvement stores, The DMV also has a great
record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).



Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more
than 25 million "middle man" positions will be created,
with important-sounding titles but little real
responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.



Mandatory non-performance- based raises and
promotions will be given, to guarantee upward mobility for even the
most unremarkable employees. The legislation
provides substantial tax breaks to corporations which maintain a
significant level of Persons of Inability in middle
positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium businesses that
agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires!



Finally, the AWNAA ACT contains tough new
measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the
Non-abled, banning discriminatory interview questions such
as "Do you have any goals for the future?" or "Do you have any skills
or experience which relate to this
job?"



`As a Non-abled Person, I can't be expected to
keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou
Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut
twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan , due to her inability
to remember `righty tighty, lefty loosey.'



`This new law should be real good for people
like me,' Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions
of other untalented citizens will finally see a
light at the end of the tunnel.



Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): `As a Senator
with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that
elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every
American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each
and every American citizen, regardless of his
or her inadequacy, with some sort of job in this great nation and
a good salary with it.


http://www.usdebtclock.org/ <---- Oh Yeah! Uh-huh!

:D



ucfgrad93
Jul 25, 2009, 12:59 PM
Love it, thanks for a good laugh.:D

it5five
Jul 25, 2009, 01:19 PM
The President pointed to the success of the US
Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing
opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of
postal employees lack job skills, making this agency the single largest US employer
of Persons of Inability.


That must have been why the military reserves proved incredibly inept at performing postal duties in the 70's during the big Postal Service strike.

People like to talk bad about the US Postal Service, but for less half a dollar we can get a letter across the entire country in a few days. I'd like to see any of you naysayers step in and do my job for one day. It'd be hilarious seeing you completely fail to meet any of our standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Postal_Service_strike_of_1970

mgguy
Jul 25, 2009, 01:46 PM
Great. I was happily eating my cereal and now it is all over the room from my uncontrolled laugher brought on by your post.

spaceboots06
Jul 25, 2009, 01:53 PM
That must have been why the military reserves proved incredibly inept at performing postal duties in the 70's during the big Postal Service strike.

People like to talk bad about the US Postal Service, but for less half a dollar we can get a letter across the entire country in a few days. I'd like to see any of you naysayers step in and do my job for one day. It'd be hilarious seeing you completely fail to meet any of our standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Postal_Service_strike_of_1970

I highly doubt you personally transport letters across the country. Anyway, two years ago there was a whole study and the result was that 1 in 12 letters/packages are lost by the United States Postal Service. Where do all the lost things go?

obeygiant
Jul 25, 2009, 01:54 PM
Can we pose as having no abilities and still get assistance?

it5five
Jul 25, 2009, 02:11 PM
I highly doubt you personally transport letters across the country.

Where did you get the idea that I said anything even remotely close to this?

I'd like to see that study, too.

Gelfin
Jul 25, 2009, 02:52 PM
Anyway, two years ago there was a whole study and the result was that 1 in 12 letters/packages are lost by the United States Postal Service.

I am really going to need a citation for this.

That suggests that for every bill you receive and pay monthly, on average once per year that bill will just inexplicably fail to arrive, and moreover that for every payment you send, likewise the payment will just vanish one time per year on average, for a total of two screw-ups per bill per year. If you have six bills to pay every month, that's on average one mail screw-up per month. We'd notice.

Either that, or I am just postally charmed.

it5five
Jul 25, 2009, 02:57 PM
He either made up that statistic or the "study" was done by a right-wing group with an agenda.

Desertrat
Jul 25, 2009, 03:57 PM
Re the USPS: My wife raised enough hell with the local PO that they quit stealing her SS checks from the PO Box. The postal inspectors said that it had been an area problem in south Georgia.

I thought the AWNAA had been passed decades ago. It would explain the Congress, for one thing, as well as the TSA.

.Andy
Jul 25, 2009, 06:03 PM
Can we pose as having no abilities
You mean you haven't been already :confused:;)?

yg17
Jul 25, 2009, 07:32 PM
Re the USPS: My wife raised enough hell with the local PO that they quit stealing her SS checks from the PO Box. The postal inspectors said that it had been an area problem in south Georgia.

That's a localized problem as a result of dishonest employees that you'll find in any company and has nothing to do with the postal service as a whole.

The USPS can, for 44 cents, get a letter from the northern most part of Alaska to the southernmost part of Florida in a week. If that's inept, then I wish more companies were as inept as the USPS.

Tesselator
Jul 25, 2009, 07:47 PM
That's a localized problem as a result of dishonest employees that you'll find in any company and has nothing to do with the postal service as a whole.

The USPS can, for 44 cents, get a letter from the northern most part of Alaska to the southernmost part of Florida in a week. If that's inept, then I wish more companies were as inept as the USPS.

Give them time... they'll privatize it and then we'll all be f&$%#d. ;)

obeygiant
Jul 25, 2009, 08:24 PM
You mean you haven't been already :confused:;)?

Doh! :eek:

emt1
Jul 26, 2009, 12:31 AM
That must have been why the military reserves proved incredibly inept at performing postal duties in the 70's during the big Postal Service strike.

People like to talk bad about the US Postal Service, but for less half a dollar we can get a letter across the entire country in a few days. I'd like to see any of you naysayers step in and do my job for one day. It'd be hilarious seeing you completely fail to meet any of our standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Postal_Service_strike_of_1970

One word. Email. Thanks for playing.

benzslrpee
Jul 26, 2009, 12:51 AM
hi, please ship this gift box through email.

One word. Email. Thanks for playing.

emt1
Jul 26, 2009, 01:01 AM
hi, please ship this gift box through email.

1. He said letter.
2. UPS offers real tracking.

sushi
Jul 26, 2009, 01:04 AM
AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT (AWNAA)<snip>
Thanks for the laugh.

People like to talk bad about the US Postal Service, but for less half a dollar we can get a letter across the entire country in a few days.
FWIW in Japan you can:

- Safely send cash.

- Mail takes a few days anywhere in Japan.

- You can determine the exact date that your letter will arrive.

Cost is 60-80 cents depending on the letter.

yg17
Jul 26, 2009, 01:45 AM
- Safely send cash.


Perhaps it's a culture thing, and the Japanese are more honest than Americans. But I can't fault the USPS or government for having a few bad apples among the thousands of employees who steal mail. Unfortunately, since a piece of mail rapidly makes its way through the system, it's difficult to pinpoint who is stealing what. It's not like a cashier stealing out of the register at McDonalds where they can count the drawer or look at security cameras, the very nature of a postal system makes tracking down theft difficult.


- Mail takes a few days anywhere in Japan.


I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 days for something to arrive via USPS. Not bad given the fact that the US is much larger than Japan.


- You can determine the exact date that your letter will arrive.


For 44 cents, I don't care whether it takes 3 days or 5 days, as long as it gets there in a timely manner. I guess it would be nice knowing when it would arrive, but I've never mailed anything first class that was mission-critical enough that I needed to know the exact date of arrival. If whatever I was mailing was that important, I'd pay for express mail or UPS/FedEx to have better tracking and guaranteed arrival.

sushi
Jul 26, 2009, 03:14 AM
I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 days for something to arrive via USPS. Not bad given the fact that the US is much larger than Japan.
Sure, the US is larger than Japan.

However, Japan is a long country. Not counting Okinawa, it stretches from Florida to Maine. Lost mail is something that doesn't happen here.

However, with the USPS, I've had numerous letters, cards and boxes lost. The US system is far from perfect. I guess for 44 cents it's okay.

For 44 cents, I don't care whether it takes 3 days or 5 days, as long as it gets there in a timely manner. I guess it would be nice knowing when it would arrive, but I've never mailed anything first class that was mission-critical enough that I needed to know the exact date of arrival. If whatever I was mailing was that important, I'd pay for express mail or UPS/FedEx to have better tracking and guaranteed arrival.
And it cost you a lot more to send via UPS/FedEx or Express USPS. :)

Where in Japan, I can trust the postal system to get the letter to the receiver by a certain date without using a special service.

Anyhow, not banging on the USPS or employees. After all, family members and friends have worked or do work in the postal system. Just wanted to bring to light that there are other systems in the world that work just as well if not better. That's all.

LethalWolfe
Jul 26, 2009, 04:24 AM
Holy crap it was a joke. People need to lighten up a bit in here.


Lethal

leekohler
Jul 26, 2009, 11:18 AM
Re the USPS: My wife raised enough hell with the local PO that they quit stealing her SS checks from the PO Box. The postal inspectors said that it had been an area problem in south Georgia.

I thought the AWNAA had been passed decades ago. It would explain the Congress, for one thing, as well as the TSA.

SS? As in Social Security? I thought you were right winger. How could you possibly allow socialism in your house? :rolleyes:

Macky-Mac
Jul 26, 2009, 04:03 PM
SS? As in Social Security? I thought you were right winger. How could you possibly allow socialism in your house? :rolleyes:

hush now! :eek: OMG....you don't think he's also signed up for that socialist medicare stuff do you?