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Bye-Bye GPO
The Government Printing Office is closing up all of its brick-and-mortar stores outside of D.C. and replacing them with a Web site.
How many other federal outposts could close and not be missed?
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Croesus|6.16.03 @ 1:39AM|#
~Little GPO....~
Warren|6.16.03 @ 2:32AM|#
OK, this is a good idea. I wonder how it will go hideously wrong?
|6.16.03 @ 2:43AM|#
Mr. Taylor:
Probably alot more, but it begs the real question: "How many other federal outposts could 'completely and permanently' close and not be missed?"
The GPO is, possibly, one of the few add-ons which still serves a usful if over priced function. The big problem I see with the "virtual" government agency or office derives from the complete failure of multiple Federal agencies, from the FBI & ATF "data sharing" fiasco to the ATC's notorious failures with computer upgrades.
I guess I just don't trust any agency to get things right.
Bill G|6.16.03 @ 5:50AM|#
Always amusing during the budget "showdowns" during the Clinton years were when the government "shut down" and the bureaucrats tried to raise a big hue & cry about how horrible it would be for people.
"Your passport applications will be delayed!"
"The national monuments will not be open!"
Pathetic.
Wozniak|6.16.03 @ 10:34AM|#
All this is, of course, assuming that the 300,000,000 citizens the GPO supposedly "serves," have computers.
(Oops!) Can I delete this post? I hope I haven't given them any ideas.
|6.16.03 @ 10:40AM|#
Life just won't be the same without those tv commercials for government pamplets you could send for at "PO Box 42, Boulder, Colorado."
The times they are a-changing.
Mike Kinko|6.16.03 @ 11:34AM|#
Don't get your hopes up, Doug. It'll all stay the same (with one exception): TV commercials for government info that will beg you to go to http:\www.GPO.gov
|6.17.03 @ 10:11AM|#
You forget, Bill G, that Clinton won the budget showdowns, because Americans were bothered that the government wasn't functioning. Big eye opener for the Gingrich team.
During one of the shutdowns, Dear Abby printed a letter lauding the Peace Corps, and published their 800 number in her reply. When the number was called, a recording told the caller that the Peace Corps offices were shut down.
Ha ha.
Billy Boner|6.17.03 @ 10:48AM|#
Roger, the 60's are over! Get used to it. We're in the 21st century now. OK? Leave the flower-power to the FTD.
Frank|6.17.03 @ 10:53AM|#
Who needs the Prace Corps?
Frank|6.17.03 @ 10:54AM|#
Who needs the Peace Corps?
(lousy, no-good keyboard)
Zappa|6.17.03 @ 11:07AM|#
What's there to live for?
|6.17.03 @ 11:14AM|#
If those last comments meant nothing to you:
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/We_re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money/02.html
BTW, what's the ugliest part of your body?