Details of Lance Armstrong sponsorship by United States Postal Service revealed. The document states that the USPS gave Armstrong almost $32 million in sponsorship money.
The U.S Postal Service spent $31.9 million to underwrite Lance Armstrong’s pro cycling team during its glory years of 2001 to 2004, approximately 60 to 65 percent of the team’s total budget, according to documents newly obtained from the agency under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Why are sponsoring this throw away of money? Really, this is just plain stupid and the big cheese at the USPS should be fired for it.
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January 17, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Armstrong is a gross waste of air
January 17, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Whatever happened to private companies subsidizing playtime?
January 17, 2011 at 5:07 pm
you didn’t get the memo? it’s our job to subsidize the corporations for life
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/01/05/fracking-the-life-out-of-arkansas-and-be
January 17, 2011 at 6:26 pm
I forgot. Bad me.
January 18, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Whadddyah bellying aching about?
Don’t you know Lance will be just perfect for the advertising slogan of the USPS?
“USPS, as fast as Lance Armstrong in the 3-week Tour de France!”
http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_horscourseTDF.html
January 18, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Their new slogan that is.
January 19, 2011 at 6:55 am
Waste of money, but then again it is easy to spend other people’s money.
January 17, 2011 at 6:34 pm
2011 is shaping up to be the year of the nuts… Some are more endowed with them than others, hence the lopsidedness of it all…
January 17, 2011 at 6:58 pm
It’s only January Unc…I am getting creeped out thinking about what the next months have in store for us.
January 17, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Squirrels. Lots of squirrels – looking for nuts…
January 18, 2011 at 7:43 am
Meanwhile back at the ranch it costs an arm and a leg to send a Christmas package!
January 18, 2011 at 7:47 am
I gave up using the USPS. It’s the most inefficient way of sending anything. Recovery for damage is hell on earth. But, they can do something like this when they are in the hole?
January 18, 2011 at 9:21 am
Slow down…this is a deflection from what is 1mportant. 32 Million is only 10 cents per us citizen…a dime?
The real issue is how much the SOB’s are spending daily.
Obam spends more on his personal BS trips a month….Do you know how much damage that idiot is causing in China with his lack of money knowledge…Watch how he continues to distroy our country for the next 2 years….Focus on what is real…
January 18, 2011 at 9:44 am
True deflection, but all those pennies add up. I remember when they were arguing about the advertisements for the Olympics, and how much that was going to send into the toilet.